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 We may eaily conceive that uch an Intercoure carce required a more refined Language than that of Crows and Monkeys, which flock together almot in the ame manner. Inarticulate Exclamations, a great many Getures, and ome imitative Sounds, mut have been for a long time the univeral Language of Mankind, and by joining to thee in every Country ome articulate and conventional Sounds, of which, as I have already hinted, it is not very eay to explain the Intitution, there aroe particular Languages, but rude, imperfect, and uch nearly as are to be found at this Day among everal Savage Nations. My Pen, treightened by the Rapidity of Time, the Abundance of Things I have to ay, and the almot inenible Progres of the firt Improvements, flies like an Arrow over numberles Ages; for the lower the Succeion of Events,