with whom the Mother, when purſued, is obliged to abandon her young ones, or regulate her Steps by theirs. In ſhort, unleſs we admit thoſe ſingular and fortuitous Concurrences of Circumſtances, which I ſhall ſpeak of hereafter, and which, it is very poſſible, may never have exiſted, it is evident, in every State of the Queſtion, that the Man, who firſt made himſelf Clothes and built himſelf a Cabbin, ſupplied himſelf with Things which he did not much want, ſince he had lived without them till then; and why ſhould he not have been able to ſupport in his riper Years, the ſame kind of Life, which he had ſupported from his Infancy?
Alone, idle, and always ſurrounded with Danger, ſavage Man muſt be fond of Sleep, and ſleep lightly like other Animals, who think but little, and may, in a manner, be ſaid to ſleep all the Time they do not think: Self-preſervation be-
