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a great {pace of unoccupied ground, which is lituated in a colder progress 

 climate, than that which they formerly inhabited j the tropical 



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ruits which grew in their native country fpontaneoully, are no 



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longer to be met with ; the roots, which there, by flight cultiva- 

 tion, gave them abundance of food, require here a very laborious 

 and toilfome huibandry, before they yield the bare neceiTaries of 

 life j becaufe vegetation is not fo luxuriant, fo rapid, and power- 

 ful in climates, remote from the fun. Let us now fuppofe this 

 clan, grown by length of time into a nation ; new divifions fu- 



pervening, force another portion, ilill further from the benevolent 



influence of the fun, where they find none of the fpontaneous tro- 



pical fruits, where even the roots, their former fupport, will not 

 thrive, on account of the rigours of their winters ; they lofe there- 

 fore, at once, their fubfillence ; and though they were obliged, in 

 their former country, to toil during a ilated time, they had, how- 

 ever, the fatisfad'ion of coUeding a certain food ; but now, unac- 



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quainted as they are, with the fpontaneous produdlions of this new 

 climate, which might, perhaps, fupply them with eatabks, they 



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ey try to kill by force or addrefs, fome animals or birds or to 



catch fome fifli in the rivers or feas, to procure a fubfiftence ; this 

 entirely alters their mode of living j their habits, their language, 

 aiid I might almoft fay their nature ; their ideas are quite changed. 



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