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nations. In effect, does not experience teach m 3 

 that politenefs, knowledge, and the maxims of 

 Hate, produce in thefe laft an attachment to, and 

 prejudice in favour of their falfe tenets ; that all 

 the zeal and abilities of the evangelical labourers, 

 can with difficulty furmount them ; and that grace 

 muff, of neceffity ad more powerfully on the minds 

 of enlightened infidels, who are almoft always 

 blindeYi by their prefumption, than on thofe who 

 oppofe to it their narrow capacities only. 



Mod part of the people on this continent have 

 a fort of Ariftocraticai government, the form 

 of which is extremely various : for though each 

 town has a chief of its own, independant 

 of all the reft of the fame nation, and whofe 

 fubjec~h are dependant on him in very few parti- 

 culars there is, notwithstanding, no affair of any 

 confequence refolved upon, but by the advice 

 of the Elders, Towards Acadia the Sagamos were 

 more abfolute, and it does not appear that they 

 were under any obligation, as the chiefs are almoft 

 every where elfe, of mailing largelTes to their fub~ 

 jecls ; on the contrary, they exacted a kind of tri- 

 bute from them ; and difintereftednefs was by no 

 means efteemed a royal virrue amongft them. But 

 it feems the difperfion of thefe Acadian Indians,, 

 and perhaps too their commerce with the French, 

 have introduced considerable changes into their an- 

 cient form of government whereof Lefcarbot and 

 Champlain are the only authors, who have given 

 us any particular account. 



Several nations have each of them three princi- 

 pal families or tribes, which feem to be as old as 

 their fifft origin. They have all, however, one 

 common flock ; and there is one at leaf! that is 

 C 3 looked 



