'As our Readers are, perhaps, by this time, fully satisfied with regard to these free-born sons of the vast American wilderness, we shall conclude the present article, with a remark or two, borrowed from Mr. Colden, in respect to the Five nations. 'They are called, says he, a barbarous people, bred under the darkest ignorance; and yet a bright and noble genius shines through these black clouds. None of the Roman heroes have discovered a greater love to their country, or a greater contempt of death, than these people called _barbarians_ have done, when liberty came in competition. Indeed I think,' continues that learned and sensible historian, 'our Indians have out-done the Romans in this particular. Some of the greatest of those have murdered themselves to avoid shame or torments; but the Indians have refused to die meanly, or with but little pain, when they thought their country's honour would be at stake by it; but have given their bodies, willingly, to the most cruel torments of their enemies, to shew, as they said, that the Five Nations consisted of men whose courage and resolution could not be shaken.--They greatly sully, however, these noble virtues, by that cruel passion, _revenge_; this, they think, is not only lawful, but honourable; and for this only it is that they can deserve the name of barbarians.--But what, alas! have we _Christians_ done, to make them _better_? We have, indeed, reason to be ashamed that these infidels, by our conversation and neighbourhood, are become _worse_ than they were before they knew us. Instead of virtues, we have only taught them vices, which they were entirely free from before that time.' In another place he observes, on the same subject, that this cruelty of revenge, is not peculiar to the Five Nations, but is common to all the other Indians. To blunt, however, the keenness of that censure _we_ might be apt to cast on them, upon this account, he hath the following just reflection: 'It is wonderful, how custom and education are able to soften the most horrid actions, even among a polite and learned people. Witness the Carthaginians and Phoenicians burning their own children alive in sacrifice; and several passages in the Jewish history;--and witness, in later times, the Christians burning one another for God's sake!' JOURNALS OF MAJOR ROBERT ROGERS (From The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal: By Several Hands. Vol. XXXIV. London: M,DCC,LXVI. For January, 1766.) Art. 32. _Journals of Major Robert Rogers; containing an Account of the several Excursions he made, under the Generals who commanded on the Continent of America, during the late War._ _From which may be collected the most material Circumstances of every Campaign on that Continent, from the Commencement to the Conclusion of the War._ 8vo. 4s. Millan.