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Rh appear to Europeans, yet they are much to be commended for the exercie of the moral virtues they inculcate, namely, temperance, jutice and humanity. Amidt a variety of extravagant cutoms, trange ceremonies, and prejudices, we may dicover the traces of ublime morality, deep philoophy, and refined policy; but when we attempt to trace the religious anti civil intitutions to their ource, we find that it is left in the maze of antiquity. The native Indians, or Hindoos, are men of trong natural genius, and are, by no means, unacquainted with literature and cience, as the tranlation of the Ayeen Akberry into Englih, has fully evinced. We may trace the origin mot of the ciences, in