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degree of refinement which they had attained ; for how can 
we call a people destitute of refinement, and of the comforts 
and conveniences of life, who joined in communities, and 
built their huts in the regular order of streets? who were 
acquainted with the uses of fire, which we know by their 
having made bread, and why should we suppose that their 
cooking was confined to this act alone ? and who manufac- 
tured such a variety of weapons, both for the defence of what 
they considered their wealth, and to provide themselves with 
the best means to gratify their appetite for a variety of food — 
arrows for birds and the smaller game, darts and sling- 
stones for the larger animals, and hooks and spears for 
catching fish, and from the skins of animals fabricated 
clothing of the most comfortable description ? 
We may not be able to state the degree of refinement of 
their manners, nor describe their institutions of government, 
but we certainly can conjecture, from the nature of the relics 
they have left, of substantial, and even gigantic proportions, 
as well as minute flint implements, that they were no mean 
savages destitute of reason and depending upon their 
instincts for subsistence. What can be more characteristic 
of comfort, and a certain degree of refinement, than the 
knowledge of manufacturing wicker-work ? and so excellently 
finished that the polite Eomans, when they came as con- 
querors to the island, coveted the possession of their works 
of art and sent them to their Imperial city. And of what 
use would such tools as the flint saw, the chisel, the drill, the 
hatchet, the hammer, and the plane, have been to them if 
they had been mere savages ? Depend upon it these were not 
playthings, or inventions of fancy, which wiser men than 
they have converted into useful implements. They are 
surviving records of the personal vigour and intelligent 
action of a people who possessed determination to promote 
their own happiness by the advancement of science and art. 
