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Show H I S T 0 R Y 0 F M E X I C 0. 194 BOOK x. in chafie wodl1ip to their na!ive gods: there the legiflative art of Eu- '--"v---1 rope correCted the hloody policy of American tribes, and introduced the mini!C~y of jufiice, by defpoil ing Indian caziqnes of their territories and tributes, torturing them for gold, and enflaving their pofterity: and there the mild parental voice of the Chrifiian rdigion was fuhorn ed to terrify confounded f.wagcs with the malice of a ftran ge, and by them unprovoked, God; and her gentle arm in violeDce lifted up, to raze their temples and hofpitable habitation s, to ruin every fond relic and revered r:nonument of their anceftry and origin, and divorce them in angui01 from the bofom of their country. APPEN .. • A p p E N D I X: C O N TAINING DISSERTATIONS ON THE LAND, THE ANIMALS, . AND THE INHABITANTS Oft' MEXICO: IN WHICH ThNc ANCTENT HISTORY of that Cou NTRY is confirmed, many PoiNTS o f .AT U RAI• H r.S T. oRv 'J II u ft ro te<l ' and ntlmerous E RRORS rcfll ted, w11r'ch have been 1)ubl I {} 1<: d conce rning AMERICA by fomc celebrated modern AUl' IIORS. Cc2 lNT RO- |