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barians and savages of modern days. Mr. Thorkelyn the advo- 
cate of the slave trade, leads up the train of witnesses : h$ is suc- 
ceeded by Ditmarus who is called in by Loccenius. Then come 
Adam Bremensis, and St. Boniface, Mallet, (a sad rogue) Jortin, 
and Fleury, as to the practice among the northern tribes of Eu- 
rope. Then he glances over the various nations of Africa, and 
the islanders of the South seas, of Ota-hai-te and Tongataboo, con- 
cerning whom we are presented with the testimony of Snellgrave 
and captain Cook. As to the American savages at the first disco- 
very of this continent, Acosta, Gomara, Antonio de Solis, Clavigero ? 
give ample testimony. The East Indian rites and ceremonies of 
similar description are attested, by Maurice, Mickle, and Crau- 
ford : by Dow, Holwell, Grose, and Buchanan : not to mention that 
indefatigable and unequalled citer of authorities, Professsor Mei- 
ner’s,* who, though he had long ago forestalled the Doctor, is 
kept too much in the back ground. 
* Dr. Magee is original only in his mode of argument : not so in his body 
of quotations, as the following extract may shew, from Meiners’ Syllabus of a 
History of all Religions. 
SECT. VII. Nor was it less universal a matter to offer peace offerings 
upon misfortunes, or to endeavour to avert the consequences of misconduct. 
Expiatory sacrifices, and trespass offerings are therefore to be met with 
amongst all the nations of the new and old world.* Nay, they have support- 
ed themselves amongst such nations as have long since banished every kind 
of bloody rite.f 
* By the Egyptians, Herod. Plutarch. 1. c, et Schmidt, p 312. By the 
Israelites, 2f8, 79. Out ram, p 118. Mich. Mosaic Laws, v 98 3. Mos. 5. 
v. 2, 3. also c. 4. and 16. By the Greeks, Plat, de Republ. ii. p. 102. edit. 
Massey. The Romans, Liv. c 31 c. 12. L. 34. c. 55. L. 28. c. 11 L. 29. 
14. Plutarch, in Coriol. ii, p. 129. By the Negroes, Loyer, p 248. De Bry, 
vi. 20. And the Siberian Heathens, Georg, p 389. By the savage Ameri- 
cans, p 348. Charlev. Jour. By the Amboinese, Valent, iii. 10. By the 
Hindoos, Roger, i. 5. ii. c. 15. 
f By the Heathen Greeks, and Mahometans, Shaw, p 333. Guys, i. 466. 
SECT. VIII. The causes which led men to offer other things, in- 
clined them likewise to offer up men ; they therefore either offered up them- 
selves willingly, or their brethren against their wills. The former was 
commonly done, for three reasons ; either to follow certain persons into ano- 
ther state,* or to appease their angry gods, or to enjoy the felicity of another 
state earlier, and in a greater degree. 
* This was done by all the Scythian and Celtic nations, Cses. vi. 21. Tav, 
c. 27. German. Herod. V. Pellout. 10. 113. 119. Conner, i. 81. 83. 
Tavern, ii. 162. Historic. Fragm. p 126. By the Hindoos. In the Indian 
ocean, Recueil des Voy. des Hollandois. 
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