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PROGRESS the improvemeiTts, which they had m their former fituatian;. 



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are negleded and loft ; the tree, from which they formerly made; 

 their o-arments, erows not in this new climate^; their retreat was Co 

 precipitate, that they had not time to take fome plants or flioots' 

 with them, nor any of the domefticated anim.als, whofe ikins af-- 

 forded them <jannents in their former country : they hov/ever, findi 

 .themfelves under the neceffity of procuring fome covering, to fcreeii', 

 their bodies againil: the rigours of the climate, and the; incle-- 



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m.encies of wind and rain, to which they m^ull now be more ex-^ 



pofed than 



quite 



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former fituat 



mode of living b 



altered. They find fome grafs, or the filaments of fomet 

 other plant, or the fkins of birds and feals,. to anfwer this pur- 

 pofe, and they ufe them accordingly ; their rambling way of life, 

 in queft of food, obtained by the chace or fiihing, obliges them.: 

 to change their abode as often as the game, becomes fcarce, or the: 

 . fifli lefs numerous ; they think it therefore not worth their while, 

 to build neat, large, and convenient houfes y a temporary hut, • 



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lull fufiicient to fcreen them from the keen winds and the fre- 



quent fhowers of rain, fnow^ and hail, is ereded by them, in every 



new place to which they remove. 



The fathers retain perhaps 



the names and ideas of things, which they enjoyed in their former 

 fituation ; their children lofe the idea, and the third or fourth ge- 



forget even the nam.es by w^hich they are called 



new 



