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REMARKS 



O N 



THE 



PROGRESS they had been long negleded. From Chaldea -and from Egypt 



OF S A — 



VAGES. *^^^ remarkable fyftems branched out, the one over India, China, 



and the extremities -of the Eaft, and the fecond over the Weft and 

 North. Here and there we are flill able to difcover fome remains ; 



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but in the interior Southern parts of Africa, and over the whole 

 continent of America, few, if any, traces of thofe ancient fyftems, 



have been difcovered 



The 



more 



tribe 



or 



preferved of 



the ancient fyftems, and modified and adapted them to their par- 

 ticular Situation, climate and other circumftances, or raifed new 

 ideas and principles upon the firft bafe or foundation, the more im- 



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proved, civilized and happy muft that tribe or nation be. 



The 



more 



a nation or tribe has forgotten or loll of the ancient fyllems i 

 their fituation, climate, and other circumftances, having obliged 

 them to negled or to depart from them without making up the de- 

 fed: by new principles and ideas, founded on the fame plan, the 

 more that nation or tribe is found to be degenerated, debafed, and 

 wretched. Various circumftances may have caufed the lofs and 



of 



of inteftine feuds 



to 



negled of the ideas and improvements of the fyftem, which their 

 progenitors or mother-tribe ftill preferved 

 obliged for inftance, on account 



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abandon their native-country, and the climate wherein they were 

 born and educated, in order to place themfelves beyond the reach 



either of the power or outrage of their enemies ; they wander over 



a great 



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