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ploring him not to do them or theirs any 

 Injury, 



One of thefe earthen Idols, I have men- 

 tioned above, to have been worfhipped in 

 America^ bears a very great Refemblance 

 to fome preferved among the Antiquities 

 of Egypt already defcribed which makes 

 it not improbable that South America was 

 firft peopled from thence at leaft, it has 

 been fo conje6tured by feveral of the 

 Learned imagining they might, in fome 

 of their long Voyages, have been driven 

 on that Coaft, without being able to re- 

 turn to their own Country, which is not 

 at all furprifmg, if we refie6l how deftitute 

 they were of all thofe Helps to Naviga- 

 ■ tion, which we are fo abundantly fupplied 

 with. 



Next to be obferved is a Japonefe Pagod, 

 a Model of a Temple with an Idol in it. 

 The People of Japan ufually keep one of 

 them in their Houfes, in the fame Man- 

 ner the Romans did their Houfhold Gods. 



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