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 man, were violated the rights of hoſpitality; never, in his innocent boſom, aroſe the murderous meditation; never, againſt the life of his gueſts, his friends, his benefactors, did he the butcher-axe uplift. Sufficient were the fruits of the earth for his ſubſiſtence; and, ſatisfied with the milk of her maternal boſom, he ſought not, like a perverſe child, to ſpill the blood of nature.

But not to the animal world alone were the affections of man Rh