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RELIGION. 
A brief allusion may be also made to tbe probable age 
when Polynesia was first peopled. If tbe conjectures already 
advanced be correct, its greatest antiquity cannot be much 
beyond that of the Phoenicians, whether derived from the 
east or the west. That it is not more ancient is also proved 
by its population being so sparsely scattered as well as the 
paucity of its remains of former times. 
A MEMORIAL IDOL, AND PRIEST INVOKING HIS GOD. 
