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54 The former natives of this part of the world, whoe purity of manners is till perpetuated by everal tribes of their poterity, having foreeen the abolute neceity of uch refrehment, and that in the region they inhabited, none could be more eaonable than founts of water for the ue of ucceeding generations, contrived thee inexhautible ources of relief in ituations mot frequented; and to prevent any thoughtles vagrant from polluting them, took care to inpire the people with a acred piety in favour of their wells and a religious dread of diturbing them. For this reaon, they remain pure and undefiled, through every age, and are held in the mot: profound veneration. Wherever we