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144 to fix their moveable abodes. The inhabitants live in a tate of nature, equetered from the tumult of butling crowds: their wants, which are few, are eaily atified; and their manners are rendered imple, from the unvarying tenor of their lives, and their remote ditance from great towns and cities, where vice finds an aylum amidt luxury and diipation, and guilty greatnes lords it over the trembling wretch who crouches at her feet. Between the villages, we oberved a few cattered huts, built by ome European adventurers, as a temporary reidence, while they are employed in cutting down timber which they ent to different parts of