NORTH AMERICAN INDIANSP



vice; they have not been taught to abhor it;
contrary, the tiaders encourag-e it for the pro
gain on the Suque, and the baraains they obtrli
intoxicated; and this imported vice, from men



ilug Christianity, has destro
their wvars and diseases put



  ' C
of t
live
not
amc
tiaut
and
Gob'



As to
he nl,
near
easy
)n cr tY
SI.  It
I an
1, that



a compoui
master of t
an ide(a of
in which
haunches:
put watimp



p What relirioon the
because the Indi1
us, have learned
to distinguish the
iern, from thosen th
t is certain they ha
n told they have
is,one simple exF



id word -
he univern
a future 4
the body
they die,
ur m and i



and the relatior
on the grave
lamentat ions.



that
3e.
exist
can
ss thi
DtlJeJ



yed greater
toreth er.
y have it is
ms that sp
many thing
notions th
ay have leal
ve no k.ind (
no radical



ress



ion for



si(rnifies
Their fun
ence.  T
be place
e corpse i
r things i



suffer not



grass



or near it, and



pres
i era
hey
,d u
n al
nto



or t



numbers



difficul
eak En
Is of us.
ey had
mjed of'
)f publi(
word C



on the
fit they
n while
profess-
than all



t to judge
glishl and
) zand it is
originally
the Chris-
c ignorship,
I  -Im nl yIng



r the Deity, bili
server, sustaine
I rites seem to i
*make a large;
plght, or upo:
I their finery,
the grave wit
trwv weeds to Ly



.1 - o



frequently



I- C



tuse
r, or
infer
hole
L1 its
and
h it,
Irow



visit it with



AMERICA PEOPLED BY A MORE CIVILIZED
       THAN THE PRESENT RED INDIANS.



At what period the continent of America



ally peopled, is a question
tisfactorily proved; in fact
which have been hitherto
mind, will not be sufficien
jecture on this head. If t
America be attentively ex
a continent more recently
globe, will not stand.



I



which has not as
t all the sources of:
exhibited to the
t to form any pr
he geological con
aminied, the opinio
formed than thle



RACE



      * 0
wvas origln-
yet been sa-
in formation
philosophic
)bable con-
stitution of
n that it is
rest of the



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