THE COUNTRY.


could ever have seen these strange people,
who make their homes in the solitudes of the
swamps or forests, his assertion concerning the
original inhabitants of Florida would seem to
have been written for them instead of for the
Chickasaws and Tocopocas.
 "I am firmly of. opinion," he declares,
 "that God created an original man and woman
 in this part of the globe of different fpecies
 from any in the other parts. Let the learned fay
 all the fine things that wit, eloquence, and art
 can infpire them with, of the simplicity of pure
 Nature, and its beauty and innocence. The
 favage wretches of America are an instance
 that this innocence is a downright flupidity,
,and this pretended: beauty a deformity, which
puts man, the lord of the creation, on an
equal foot (yea, below) the brute beats of
the fields and forefts."
 The Indians, of course, were in his mind as
he wrote; but looking at these expressionless
faces, one applies his words.
 Perhaps that quality in an occasional friend
which makes it possible for us in imagination