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 two modes of migration the hitory of mankind informs us, and o far as I can yet dicover, of two only.

countries where life was yet unadjuted, and policy unformed, it ometimes happened that by the dienions of heads of families, by the ambition of daring adventurers, by ome accidental preure of ditres, or by the mere dicontent of idlenes, one part of the community broke off from the ret, and numbers, greater or maller, forook their habitations, put themelves under the command of ome favourite of fortune, and with or without the content of their countrymen or governours, went out to ee what better regions they could occupy, and in what place, by conquet or by treaty, they could gain a habitation.

of enterprie like thee, who committed to their own words their hopes and their