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covered, not only among the pro- 
ductions of the earth, but alfo in 
the cuftoms of the inhabitants. I 
know how dangerous it is to rely 
too much upon fuch analogies, un- 
lefs they be fufficientlyprecife; fmcc 
a fimilarity of wants and fituations, 
in feveral people unconnected with 
each other, may have produced the 
fame effects. I could not avoid how- 
ever being ftruck with the following 
coincidence, which feems to indicate 
fomething more than mere chance, 
or a famenefs of circumftances. The 
firft conquerors of Peru reported that 
the 
duced Mr. Aubrey to fuipeft that the north- 
weft part of America is cither connected with 
the north-cad part of Ail?., or at leafl that the 
ieparation is not very coniuiorabls. 
