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ALCP PPE eR Ne Di Tig Xs ai Nala 
and all its horrible confequences; this alone is fufficient to make 
a nation of giants dwindle into pygmics, 
A THIrD reafon may ftill be affigned, viz. the introduc- 
tion of manufactories among them. ‘Thofe people, who de- 
pended on the fpoils of the chace for their habiliments, were 
certain cf preferving their full vigor, their ftrength of conftitu- 
tion, and fulnefs of habit; while thofe who are confined to the 
loom grow enervate, and lofe much of the force of their bodily: 
faculties. They alfo live in tents lined with woollen manu- 
facture, which doubtlefsly are much more delicate, luxurious, 
and warm, than the dwellings of the third undegenerate clafs.. 
We are unacquainted with the form of their tents, but we know: 
that they ftill cloath themfelves with the fkins of beafts, and: 
that, among thofe Mr. Clarke faw,,there was not the left appear— 
ance of manufactury, excepting what related to their horfe fur- 
niture. ‘Thefe feem to have been the genuine remains of the: 
free race; the conquerors of. Pedro de Baldivia; the Puelchesy. 
whofe original ftation was among the Andes of Chiloe, in about: 
latitude 43, and almoft due eaft of the ifle of Chiloe. Thefe 
were the defcendants of the Jzdiavs who retreated to the fouth,, 
far out of the common track of Europeans, and who retain their. 
primeyal grandeur of fize: the others, who fled north-eaft, for- 
getful of their original magnificent ftature, loft in general that: 
noble diftinétion by unfuitable alliances, and the ufe of fpirits,, 
while the firft probably only marry amiong themfelves, and cer- 
tainly have all ftrone liquer in abhorrence: fome of this tall 
race feem ftill to inhabit the {tations of their anceftors, or fome. 
not very remote from them; for MZ. Frezier was affured by Doz. 
Pedro Molina, governor of Chiloe, that he once was vifited by 
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