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Gallic axeSj which cut wood as if they had been 
of steel Every where in the Old Continent, 
at the beginning’ of the civilization of nations, 
the use of copper mixed with tin pre- 
vailed over that of iron, even in places where 
the latter had been for a long time known. 
* See my Political Essay on New Spain j ?oL 3, p, 306, 
edition in 8v0. 
