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 kill them both one after another, the Moment he hould be commanded o to do, and all this without any Manner of Aitance. The Governor having accepted thee Terms, the Indian was as good as his Word, and performed every thing he had promied. For the way he went about it, and the Particulars of o extraordinary an Engagement, the Reader may conult the Firt Volume of  by Mr. Gautier, from whom I have borrowed this Account. Page xxx.

Pag. 25.

(7.) "The Length of Life in Hores, ays Monieur de Buffon, is, as in every other Species of Animals, proportionable to the length of their growing State. Man, who is fourteen Years growing, may live ix or even times as long, that is, Ninety or a Hundred Years: The Hore, whoe Growth is performed in four Years, may live ix or even times as long, that is five and twenty or thirty Years. The Intances of Deviations from this Rule are o few, that they ought not to be conidered as an Exception from which any Conequences can