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ORIGIN their garments a rug, made of the filaments of the flax-plant worked 



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into a kind of mat, like thatch on its outfide, which they call 

 Kegheea : this is fa very well calculated to keep off the wind, the 



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d the fpray of the fea, that it is amazing that the poor 



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inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego, who mufl depend folely on the^ 



ram, an 



fea for 



food, in a climate remarkably colder,, and more 



boiflerous than that of New-Zeeland,. h 



hitherto devifed 



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better and more convenient ufe of their feals and guanacoes fkins. 

 The agriculture which is fo well and fo carefully carried on in 

 many parts of the Northern iiland, inconteflibly proves the fupe- 

 riority of the New-Zeelanders over the inhabitants of Tierra del 

 Fuego. So that it might be fuperfluous in me to take up more 



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time in multiplying the proofs of this fo evident truth. 



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It feems likewife equally obvious, that the more improved flate 

 of the New-Zeelanders, is owing to feveral caufes, viz. the 

 mildnefs of the climate,, the greater population, and, alfo that they 

 are more immediately defcended from fuch tribes as had more 

 remains of the general principles of education.. In the extremities 



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- of the Southern ifle of New-Zeeland, perhaps the numbers may 



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be only equal to thofe of the PefTerais, but beiiig more happy in 

 regard to the mildnefs of their climate, and the prefervation of 



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fuch ideas and improvements as were handed down to them, by 

 their more happy and lefs degenerated anceflorsj 



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thefe 



Uraggling 



