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caufe th-cy are defcended from a degenerated race, and become happy ,,. 

 the remote offspring of fucli tribes as are Hill polTelTed of the re- 

 mains of the original fyilem of education^ of which little or nor- 

 thing palTed over with them into Tierra del Fuego, 



Wherever we find nations or tribes in nearer or more immedi- 

 ate coxinjexion, with thofe who had flill the fyflem of ufeful ideas,, 

 perpetuated by education, we likewife find the human fpecies, as 



it were, in more vigour, and better civilization. The ancient 

 Mexicans and Peruvians feem to be defcended from thofe nations,, 

 whom Kiiblaikhan fent to conquer Japan, and who were difperfed 

 by a dreadful ftorm, and it is probable that fome of them v/ere 



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oafl of Am 



d there formed thefe two g 



empires 



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The Greenlanders and Efkimaux, in the very North of 



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America, came later into that continent than any of the other Ame- 

 jrican nations, (the Mexicans and Peruvians excepted,) for they are 

 reckoned to be a foreign tribe, and they appear to be of a different 

 race of men, by the language, the drefs, the features, fize, form 



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and habit of body, and manners : probably they came from fome 

 of the numerous iiles,. which form the connexion between America 

 and Afia. All thefe nations had better regulations and. principles 

 than their neighbours, and human nature feems with them to have 



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more 



gour, than 



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ih of the American fivage 



tribes y their later connexions with, and defcent from Afiatic na- 



tions,, 



