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tages which they might derive om those regions that began to open to their view. The latter, simple and undiscerning, had no resight of the calamities and desolation, which were now approaching their country.
BR GED FROM ROBERTSON.
LESSON IV.
-STORY D SPEECH OF LOGAN, AN INDIAN CHIEF.
'nrANS, n., the name now universally given to the aboriginal tribes of America, om the mistake of Columbus, in supposing that that part of the new world discovered by him, belonged to India.
EL'OQUENCE, n., the power of speaking with uency and elegance; oratory. L. eloquentia.
EM'INENCE, n., reputation; celebrity; me; supreme degree. L. em­ i entia, om eminens, om emineo, to stand, or show itself above. DEMOS1THENES, n., a mous Grecian orator, who destroyed himself by
poison, B. C. 319.
C1 1ERO, n., a celebrated orator and writer among the Romans, who, to satisfy the hatred.of Mark Antony, was out to death B. C. 43.
TEs1TIMONY, n., proof. L. testimoniurn.
SUM'MARY, a., short; brief. F. sommaire.
VEN'GEANCE, n., punishment; retribution. From F. venger, to re­
venge. L. vindico.
GLUT, v., to ll beyond su ciency; more than enough: L. glutio.
F. 0 englontir.
AR BOUR, v., to entertain. From A.S. here-berga, a station, a place
of rest.
1. THE principles of society, among the American Indians, . rbidding all compulsion, they are to be led to duty, and to enterprise, by personal in uence and persuasion. Hence, eloquence in council, bra­ very and address in war, become the undations of all consequence with them. To these acquirements all their culties are directed. Of their bravery and address in war, we have multiplied proofs, because we have been the subjects on which they were exer­ cised.