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x: A USES culty of pronouncing eonfonants, which fome founded more eafily, 

 JBTIES " whilft others, either changed, or entirely omitted them. Whea 



a migrating race found in their new country, new birds, new fifhes. 



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and new plants, they muft of courfe find new names for them, 

 which could not exiil in any other of the cogeneric dialeds. The 

 qualities of thefe new animals, the preparation of the new vegetables 

 into food and garments, required other new names, and thus it 

 happened, that their language gradually afTumed a diflind appear- 

 ance, though after all, it was the fame with that of the original 

 tribe, being modified only to fuit the organs of the tribe, and the 

 jiew objeds of their country* 



Having now determined, that thefe people ufe the Jame general 



language in various dialed:s, we have only to prove, that the 

 ojther nations are of a different race, from that, to which the firfl 

 varieties own their origin ; and this is very eafy to prove in the 

 fame manner by their languages, which are not only wholly dif- 

 ferent from the abovem.entioned general language, but are likewife 

 diftinCl from each other : fo that one might with as much propriety 

 fay, that they are defcended from as many different nations, were 

 it not improper to multiply them without necefiity, and as they 

 really have fome fimilarity in their cufloms^ colour, form; and 

 habit of body, 



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