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ently large to contain a whole family and their traffic. 
By means of the multitude of amazing ponds 
throughout this country, they convey themfelves a 
vaft diftance in a very little time. Whenever they 
find a pond in their wav, they embark on it, and 
travel by water ; when its courfe alters, and by fol- 
lowing it they would lengthen their diftance any 
thing confiderable, they land, place their canoe on 
their head, and carry their baggage on their fhoulders, 
until other water gives them an opportunity of re- 
embarking. They are moft excellent travellers. 
They bear inconceivable fatigue with aftonifhing pa- 
tience, and will travel two days fucceffively without 
taking any fort -of nourishment. 
Thefe Indians ate of a deeper colour than the 
Efquimaux. They are low of ftature. Though of 
a robuft conftitUtion, their limbs are Small, and ex- 
tremely well adapted to the rocky country they are 
continually traversing. They have no hair, except on. 
the head. For many years they have d relied their 
food, which they boil to a jelly j whereas the other 
Indians eat every thing raw. Their manner, of 
feeding is certainly conducive to that hofpitable dif- 
pofition, which they are laid to po fiefs, and was 
doubtlefs originally a great caufe of their civilization. 
Indeed the Efquimaux begin to imitate us ; but it is 
no more than a year or two, that the bufinefs of 
cookery has been known among them. 
It is their cuftom to deftroy the aged and decrepid, 
when they become ufelefs to the Society, and bur- 
then fome to themfelves. They have been queftioned 
ot this Teeming inhumanity ; and perhaps their rea- 
fons. are not totally devoid of found philofophy. 
They; 
