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 on their becoming more indutrious they began their Agriculture by cultivating with harp Stones and pointed Sticks a few Pule or Roots about their Cabins; and that it was a long time before they knew the Method of preparing Corn, and were provided with Intruments neceary to raie it in large Quantities; not to mention the Neceity there is, in order to follow this Occupation and ow Lands, to conent to loe omething at preent to gain a great deal hereafter; a Precaution very foreign to the turn of Man's Mind in a avage State, in which, as I have already taken notice, he can hardly foreee his Wants from Morning to Night.

For this Reaon the Invention of other Arts mut have been neceary to oblige Mankind to apply to that of Agriculture. As oon as Men were wanted to fue and forge Iron, others were wanted to maintain them. The more Hands were