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fland unparallelled 



annals of all nations. The man who 



£hall carry thefe vegetable produilions to Taheitee, and the South- 

 Sea iiles, and at the fame time teach the inhabitants their ciiltiva- 

 tlon and ufe, will become a benefadtor to mankind; he will de- 

 fcrve to be ranked v/ith Tciptolemus, Orpheus, and other heroes, 

 and merit the tnanks and reverence of grateful poflerity. 



The happinefs refulting from the fertile climate, and from a pro- 



fiiiiion of fine vegetable produftions, raifed 



the induftry of the 



Manahounes and Toutous in Taheitee, and its neighbourhood ; 

 the very moderate and mild fervitude oi their Toutous, the order 



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and regulation in their dorneflie focieties, the benevolent and pa- 



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ternal aftecflion of their chiefs, their affociation for the fecurity of 

 property and liberty, their commerce, wxalth, and enjoyments, 

 give us the befi; idea of the more refined and exalted fituation of tlie 

 inhabitants of Taheitee, and the Society-iflands, above all the reft 

 of the nations we vifited in the courfe of our voyage. Convinced 

 of the red:itude of order, and juflice, as far as they relate to human 



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focieties 3 fenfible of the pleafure arifing from each common a(5t 



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of benevolence, and fired with the g^jnerous fpirit of communi- 

 eating happinefs to as many as are willing to form with them the 

 fame fociety; they are likewife -capable of that noble and difin-- 



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tcrefted defire to work for the common weal as much as lies in. 



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their power, which we call public fpirit qx true patriot ifmy^wd what 



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