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vellers who invent and publifli fuch fables, or the excefs 

 of fimplicity in thofe who repeat them. If there had ever 

 been a nation of the new world, in which fuch a pheno- 

 menon had been obferved (which M. de Paw cannot 

 prove), that certainly would not have been fufficient to 

 fay, that in many places of America milk abounds in the 

 breafts of men ; and much lefs to affirm, as Johnfton 

 does, of alrnofl: all the men in the new world. 



Thofe Angularities, which Mr. de Paw remarks in 

 the American woman, would be mofl acceptable to 

 them if they were true; for nothing certainly could be 

 more defirable to them, than to be freed from the pains 

 and difficulties of child-bearing, to abound with that li- 

 quor which nourifties their children, and to be fpared the 

 inconveniencies which are occafioned by thofe periodi- 

 cal and difagreeable evacuations ? But that which would 

 be efteemed by them a circumftance of happinefs, is re- 

 ported by M. de Paw as a proof of their degeneracy ; 

 for that eafe of delivery, he fays, (hews the expanfion of 

 the vaginal paffiage, and the relaxation of the mufcles of 

 the matrix, on account of the fluids being too copious : 

 their abundance can only proceed from the humidity of 

 their conftitutions, and that, otherwife, they do not con- 

 form with the women of the old continent ; whereas 

 they, according to M. de Paw's legiflation, are the mo- 

 del of all the world. Surely it muft excite the wonder 

 of every one, that whereas the author of the Hiftorical 

 Refearches remarks fuch a fcarcity of milk in the Ameri- 

 can women, that the men are obliged to fuckle their own 

 children ; the author of the Philofophical Refearches 

 on the contrary, mould attribute to them fuch an extra- 

 ordinary abundance of it ; and who is there, that in 

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