NORTH AMERICA. 
rate impartial trial, and public condemnation, and 
then (he would be looked upon as a harlot. 
Such is the virtue of thefe untutored favages : 
t?ut I am afraid this is a common phrafe epithet, 
having no meaning, or at leaft improperly applied ; 
for thefe people are both well tutored and civil ; an d 
it is apparent to an impartial obferver, who relides 
but a little time amongft them, that it is from the 
molt delicate fenfe of the honour and reputation of 
their tribes and families, that their laws and culioms 
receive their force and energy. This is the divine 
principle which influences their moral conduct, and 
folely preferves their conftitution and civil govern- 
ment in that purity in which they are found to pre- 
vail amongft them. 
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