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demonftrate, that neither promifcuou'S' 

 generation, nor change of climate, can 

 annihilate the natural chara&eriftic di- 

 stinctions of thefe different people. 

 Blacks and Whites, however, are not 

 properly natives of this, or any other 

 part of America* having been trans- 

 planted hither, the former from Europe, 

 and the latter from Africa. I lhall, 

 however, in a fubfequent Letter, fub- 

 join an account of them ; but in this 

 fhall confine myfelf to the Aborigines of 

 Guiana, who, as well as all the Natives 

 of America, are commonly, tho' im- 

 properly, called Indians. 



The Indians of Guiana are divided 

 into feveral tribes, differing in the de- 

 grees of their progreffive advancement 

 from the ignorance and ferocity of a 

 ftate of nature, from which they are 

 but little removed. Thofe who inhabit 

 the far interior parts ©f the country are 



but 



