war expeditions they never hesitate to give battle to their enedmies, altho they may consist of double their own number; but rush forward with a blind impetuosity, and generally fall victims to an imprudent valour. Nothwithstanding the dissimilarality of character on this head from the Chipweans, may not this people have been descended from them, and that more enterprising than the rest have been enticed to leave the Colder Lattitudes, and penetrate into the Southward, where they may have remained on account of its being a better Country; – Or may they have been the Original inhabitants of the country they now possess, and that some of them of a more pacific disposition than the rest, have been dissatisfied with their mode of life, living continually under the dread of enémies; might have been tempted to leave their nature Lands, and migrate to the northward, so as to cultivate the arts of Peace, and remain secure and unmolested from the depriedations and threatnings of their former adversaries[.] The Chipweans at this day are of that peacefull disposition, which must be a great cause of their having become such a powerfull nation as they are at present; and which seems to be the only argument in support of

[11]