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of perhaps ten fortunes in the fame money 
cheft, produce here no intrigues, diibrder, or 
crimes. Parents having no reafons for op- 
pofing thofe fentiments of prepofTeffion which 
lead a child towards one abjed rather than to 
another, all marriages being founded on a re- 
ciprocal afFeclion, are always attended with 
happinefs ; and as, to preferve them, they 
know no other law but Jove, they have no 
other motive for diffolving them but indif- 
ference. Thefc unions, formed by fimple na- 
ture, are more lading than might be expeded 
amongft thefe fl^epherds ; and their love for 
their children renders both the parties every 
day more and more neceffary to one another. 
The formality of thefe marriages confifts 
then in a fimpie and fmcere promife of living 
together as long as may be agreeable. When 
two yoong people enter into this engage- 
ment, they inflantly become man and wife ; 
and this alliance is certainly not folemnized 
by thofe ridiculous and filthy afperiions of 
Vv^h'ich I have fpoken. A few (heep, and 
fometimes an ox, are killed to celebrate this 
little feftival : the parents give a few cattle 
to the young couple; and the latter conftrud: 
a hut, and take polTeffion of it the fame 
day. 
