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 food which nature, unviolated, brings forth for our ſupport (8).

But feeble amongſt nations, barbarous or civilized, this principle of ſympathy and compaſſion operates in the breaſt of the ſavage with a force almoſt incredible. No leſs compaſſionate to their cattle than the Hindoos, whom, in moſt of their opinions and cuſtoms, they reſembled, were the Aborigenes of the Canary or Happy Iſlands (happy, indeed, if innocence and happineſs be the fame!) If their Rh