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tertain you more at large on this article with my 

 firft leifure; for though I have not a vaft deal 

 to do in this place, yet I am often interrupted in 

 fuch manner, that I cannot promife on having 

 two hours in a day to myfelf. This letter as well 

 as mo ft of the preceeding ones, will fhew you 

 that I do not finifh them at one fitting. I fhall 

 content myfelf at prefent. with obferving, in order to 

 compleat the portrait of Indians, that even in their 

 mo ft indifferent actions, we may difcover traces 

 of the primitive religion, but which efcape thofe 

 who do not view them with fufficient attention, 

 thefe being ftill more effaced by the want of in- 

 ftruclion, than changed by the mixture of fuper- 

 ftkious worfhip, and by fabulous traditions. 



I am, &c. 



LETTER 



