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places. Sometimes their roosts were discerned on the tops of rocky mountains almost inaccessible to man - there they could not procure materials for the construction of their huts, huts rested upon something of wood rudely put together, and resembling a truckle bedstead, - & it is truly astonishing how they could have rested at all on sharp-pointed stones and rocks.-

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# History is not altogether silent with respect to the [indecipherable] origin of the inhabitants of the islands in the Pacific, and which [indecipherable] my conjecture that they came from Peru and others of the countries in America conquered by the Spaniards. a profound political writer states "that Guatimozin who succeeded Montezuma as Emperor of Mexico, possessed the noblest qualities of the mind, and executed all his power to resist the oppression of the invaders of his country. He was finally compelled to leave his capital to take refuge in the northern provinces of the Empire, there to defend hs people and throne against the encroachments of the invaders, but the canoe in which the unfortunate and brave monarch had embarked was taken by a brigantine". The sequel of the mournful testament of Guatimozin is too well known, & cannot here be introduced, altho' our author who wrote nearly seventy years ago, in a spirit of prophecy predicted the final fate of the 

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