^85 CONCLUSION, 



conquefts : aher, perhaps, bloody contefts between the progeny of 

 Britons and Ruffians, about countries to which neither have any 

 rio-ht ; after the deaths of thoufands of clamants, and the extirpation 

 of the poor natives by the fword, and new-imported difeafes, a quiet 

 fettlement may talce place, civilization enfue, and the arts of peace 

 be cultivated: learning, the luxury of the foul, diffufe itfelf through 

 the nation, and feme naturalifl: arife, who, v/ith fpirit and abilities,, 

 may explore each boundary of the ocean which feparates the Afiatic 

 and American continents ; may render certain what I can only 

 fufpefl; and, by his obfervations on the feathered tribe, their flights 

 and migrations, give utility to mankind, in naval and oeconomical 

 operations, by auguries which the antients knew well to apply to 

 the benefit of their fellow-creatures. He may, perhaps, fmile on 

 the labors of the Ar£iic Zoologift (if by that time they are not quite 

 obfolete) ; and, as the animate creation never changes her courfe, he 

 may find much right j and, if he is endowed with a good heart, will 

 candidly attribute the errors to mifinforraation, or the common in- 

 . firmity of human nature. 



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