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exerclfe, than to obtain their livelihood by it. The fertility of the 



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country enables them to fatisfy their little want?, and to form fo-- 

 cieties, where they can mutually affifl one another, both by their 

 labour and by the inftruftion and knowledge, which willingly flows 

 from the lips of their wife men and fathers; they hear the noble 



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actions of their ancefliors celebrated by fongs, and confecrated 



the gratitude of pofterity ; their minds therefore are early devoted 



to candour and humanity, to truth and to virtue ; their focieties ai-e 

 v/ell regulated -, their chiefs have a great love and paternal predi- 

 k6tion for the happinefs and welfare of their fubjecSs, who, in their 



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turn are attached to their fuperiors by love and a truly filial duty. 

 The vices v/hich are ufual among them, are yet fo few in pumber, 

 and of fo harmlefs a tendency that few focieties can boail: fuch in- 

 nocence,, and fimplicity of manners. Every individual is con- 

 vinced that the chiefs can have nothing In view in the adminiftra- 

 tion of affairs, but the happinefs of the whole community, and the 

 fatisfa6:ion and contentment of every Indivldtial ; and this they prove 

 in. return by that exemplary love, attachment, refped and obedi- 

 encQi wiiich they, chearfully fhew to their chiefs. While the 

 youth of both fexes was finging and dancing, and thofe of a ma- 

 turer age, acflive as well In their duties as enjoyments, we have often 

 feen the venerable hoary fen lor looking upon the more bufy fcenes of 



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life with a complacent fmile and a ferenity, which bore witnefs to the 



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