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 Exertions of Indutry. On the Sea Shore, and the Banks of Rivers, they invented the Line and the Hook, and became Fishermen and IchtyophagousIchthyophagous [sic]. In the Forets they made themelves Bows and Arrows, and became Huntmen and Warriors. In the cold Countries they covered themelves with the Skins of the Beats they had killed; Thunder, a Volcano, or ome happy Accident made them acquainted with Fire, a new Reource againt the Rigors of Winter: they dicovered the Method of preerving this Element, then that of reproducing it, and latly the Way of preparing with it the Fleh of Animals, which heretofore they devoured raw from the Carcae.

This reiterated Application of various Beings to himelf, and to one another, mut have naturally engendered in the Mind of Man the Idea of certain