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212 Obtacles, which may hinder their Converion, and render them unfit to receive the Chritian Doctrine, before any thing uccesfully can be undertaken in their Behalf.

It would contribute a great deal to forward their Converion, if they could be Degrees be brought into a ettled Way of Life, and to abandon this auntering and wandering about from Place to Place to eek their Livelihood. But this cannot be hoped until a Chritian Nation comes to be ettled among them, (I mean in uch Places where the Ground is fit for Tillage and Paturage) to teach them, and by little and little accutom them to a quiet and more ueful Way of Life, than that which they now follow.

They hould alo be kept under ome Diclipline, and retrained from their foolih Supertitions, and from the illy Tricks and wicked Impotures of their Angekkuts, which out to be altogether prohibited and punihed. Yet my Meaning is, not that they by Force and Contraint hould be compelled to