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lent, fo that it is not the fruit of their oDfcrvatfOfSs 

 or of long cuftom. Children who have never been 

 ©ut of their village, will travel equally well with 

 thofe who have been all over the country. 



The beauty of their imagination equals its vi- 

 vacity, which appears in ail their difcourfe : they 

 are very quick at repartees, and their harangues 

 are full of Aiming pafTages, which would have 

 been applauded at Rome and Athens. Their elo 

 quencehas a ftrength, nature, and pathos,, which no* 

 art can give, and which the Greeks admired in the 

 barbarians •, and though this is fupported by none 

 of the action of an orator,, and though they never 

 ;raife their voice to any confiderable pitch, yet you 

 perceive that they are afie&ed with what they fay, 

 and they perfuade. 



It would be really furprizing if with fo fine art 

 imagination, they had not alfo an excellent me- 

 mory. They are without all thofe helps which we 

 have invented to eafe our memory, or to fupply 

 the want of it ; yet you cannot imagine what an 

 infinite number of different topicks, with an 

 immenfe detail of circumflances, and an amaz- 

 ing order, are handled rn their councils. On 

 fome occalions however they make ufe of little 

 fficks, to remind them of the different articles 

 they have to difcufs \ and with eafe they form a 

 kind of local memory, and that fo fure and in- 

 fallible, that they will fpeak for four or live hours 

 together, and difpky twenty different prefents, 

 each of which requires an entire difcourfe, without 

 forgetting any thing, and even without hefitation. 

 Their narration is neat and precife ; and though they 

 ufe a great many allegories and other figures, yet 

 it is lively, and has all the beauties which their 

 language affords. 



