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mates, that they were " caufarwrn ?iaiu» 

 ralium jludiofi' — As their manfes were en- 

 tirely in woods, having the objeds meant, 

 continually before their eyes — And as they 

 are known to have been the unfortunate 

 idolatrous religious of their time, and their 

 principles for ought they could forefee, were 

 likely to continue to lateft ages j we may 

 very reafonably conclude, that not taking 

 up with the natural produftions only of 

 this royal plant, which they found in Bri- 

 tain at their early coming, they might at firft 

 thought difcover, that by applying art to 

 nature, they might attain a more venera- 

 ble grandeur and ftatelinefs to fuch their 

 temples ; not without fome view of the 

 greater veneration accruable likewife there- 

 by, meaning the fruits of veneration, ta 

 ihemfelves and their defcendants— 



I KNOW not v/hether I fhould defervc 

 any thanks from them, if they were living, 

 to make a facrifice of their moral honefty, 

 to compliment their underftanding ; fo far 

 as to affert, that there is good reafon to 

 think, notwithftanding the number of their 

 idols, themfelves were only Polytheijls in 

 £hew, to amufe the vulgar j as they have 



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