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tie ; repeating the word Englees inceflantly in their fongs, 
at their dances and rejoicings, which he faid were not 
then over ; and that they were meditating another ex¬ 
pedition, more formidable than the laft, in which they 
meant to rely on the affiftance of the Englijb. — Mr. Ben- 
ger faid their houfes were tolerably good, with planta¬ 
tions of yams and cocoa-nuts about them; that the foil ap¬ 
peared to be rich and fertile; that they have neither corn, 
or cattle of any kind, nor did he fee much fruit or pro¬ 
duce of any great ufe or value. — The China-man alfo 
added, u that this have very poor place , and very poor peo- 
“ pie ; no got cloaths , no got rice, no got hog , no got nothings 
u only yam , little fJJj, and cocoa-nut ; no got nothing make 
66 trade , very little make e-atP This fellow’s defcription, 
which I have given in his own words, fufficiently Ihewed 
that he viewed mankind with the eye of a Dutchman , 
only calculating what was to be got from them. — The 
mind of a fpeculative reader is far otherwife engaged; 
he, in the difperfed families of the world, traces the hand 
of Providence guiding all things with unerring wif- 
dom.—He marks it balancing with equal fcale its blef- 
fmgs to the children of men; and conliders human na¬ 
ture, however unadorned, when dignified by virtuous 
fimplicity, as one of the nobleft objects of contempla¬ 
tion. 
1783. 
AUGUST. 
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