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REMARKS 



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H 



A 



VI. 



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On the Principles^ Mdral Ideas^ Manners y Refnement 

 Luxury y and the Condition of Women^ among the Na 



^ « 



tkns in the South-Sea 



PrIM.^ DEPJflkTJ^T SOLATIA DUIjCIA VIT^. 



JLumtius, 



r* 



NERS 



T 



H E happy inhabitants of the tropieal iflands 



the South 



Sea, occupy a rank 



the clafs of human beings, which 



the Society-iflands 



^ f 



by no means fo defpicable, as might, at firil fight, be imagined 

 and the Taheiteans and their neighbours in 

 inay claim the higheft rank among thefe nat 



;rior to the can 



They 



ly, for many reafons, fup 



bals 



New-Z 



/ 



land, and ftill higher above the rambling, poor inhabitants, of 



New-Holland, and th 



moft 



happy 



wretches of Tierra del 



Fuego. In the fame proportion the people at Tanna, and Malli 

 collo, exceed thofe at New- Caledonia 5 the inhabitants of the Mar 



quefas, ftand higher than the peopl 



thefe mufl yield to the Taheiteans, 



of the Friendly-iflands, and 



every 



mftance concurs 



to 



