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The Religious Sentiments of all the 

 known tribes in Dutch Guiana are near- 

 ly fimilar. They all firmly believe the 

 exiftence of one fupreme God, the Au- 

 thor of all Nature. But the foundation 

 of this belief depends not on contem- 

 plating the effects of that wifdom and 

 power, which has difpofed the innume- 

 rable orbs of the univerfe with fuch har- 

 mony, that millions of worlds revolve 

 round millions without impediment to 

 each other; nor on the order, beauty, 

 and regularity which is apparent in eve- 

 ry part of this our material fyftem ; 

 but on the deformities and convulsions 

 of Nature, which, to a plilofopher, 

 tend to create fcepticifm and infidelity. 

 The India?!, however, fees unquefti- 

 onable evidences of a Deity in earth- 

 quakes, prodigies, thunder-dorms, and 

 tempefts. 



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