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Nor is there leſs of Injury appears
About her Mountains, or her Mountaineers.
View but the Savage [1] Madagaſcar Moors,
[2] Campeche Indians, or [3] Circaſſian Boors,
And when the Characters we ſhall compare,
A Northern Highland-man's a Chriſtian there.
Polite his Manners, and his [4] Modern Dreſs,
Is Beauty all, when match't with Uglineſs.
- ↑ A most savage People, that go naked, live on raw Flesh, and are the most Brutal of any people in the World.
- ↑ Campeche Indians are some of them the most Barbarous and Inhn|mane of any of the American Race, among whom have been found abso|lute Cannibals, that devour one another
- ↑ The Circassian Boors are a sort of Tartars now under the Domini|on of the Czar of Muscovy, very Cruel and Barbarous, and far worse than the most was ever pretended of the wild Irish or any sort of People in these parts of the World.
- ↑ I take the Highland Plaid, or the Dress of these Highland-men, to be the Remain of the Mantle of the Ancient Goths, and the same thing, applyed to the same Uses of the—of the Moors of Africk, since both People use it to cover them in the Night, and therefore make no Scruple to carry it by Day in the hotest Weather.
