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 ; and had navigation been at that time diffidently advanced to make o long a paage eaily practicable, there is little reaon for doubting but the intumecence of nations would have found its vent, like all other expanive violence, where there was leat reitance; and that Huns and Vandals, intead of fighting their way to the South of Europe, would have gone by thouands and by myriads under their everal chiefs to take poeion of regions miling with pleaure and waving with fertility, from which the naked inhabitants were unable to repel them.

expedition would in thoe days of laxity have produced a ditinct and independent tate. The Scandinavian heroes might have divided the country among them, and have pread the feudal ubdiviion of regality from Hudon’s Bay to the Pacific Ocean.