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and Herbs, and Fruits, for Meat, Medicine, or 

 moderate Delight ; with (hady Woods and 

 Groves, and Walks fet with Rows of elegant 

 Trees ; with Pa/lures ckathed with Flocks, and 

 Valleys cover d with Corn, and Meadows bur- 

 thened with Grafs, and whatever elfe differen- 

 ceth a civil and well-cultivated Region, from, 

 a barren and defolate Wildernefs. 

 , If a Country thus planted and adorn'd, thus 

 polifhed and civilized, thus improved to the 

 Height by all Manner of Culture for the Support 

 and Suftenance, and convenient Entertainment 

 of innumerable Multitudes of People, be not to 

 be preferred before a barbarous and inhofpitable 

 Scythia, without Houfes, without Plantations, 

 without Corn-fields or Vineyards, where the 

 roving Hords of the favage and truculent Inhabi- 

 tants transfer themfelves from Place to Place in 

 Waggons, as they can find Pafture and Forage 

 for their Cattle, and live upon Milk, and Flefli 

 roafted in the Sun, at thePomels of their Sad- 

 dles ; or a rude and unpoliflied America, peopled 

 with flothful and naked Indians, inftead of welU 

 built Houfes, living in pitiful Huts and Cabbins, 

 made of Poles fet end- ways ; then fu rely the 

 brute Beafls Condition, and Manner of Living, 

 to which, what we have mentioned doth near- 

 ly approach, is to be efteem^d better than Man's, 

 and Wit and Reafon was ir> vain beftowed on 

 him. 



M 3 Laflk, 



