[Footnote 200: For the corruption of Palestine, 2000 years
before the Christian aera, see the history and laws of
Moses. Ancient Gaul is stigmatized by Diodorus Siculus,
(tom. i. l. v. p. 356,) China by the Mahometar and Christian
travellers, (Ancient Relations of India and China, p. 34
translated by Renaudot, and his bitter critic the Pere
Premare, Lettres Edifiantes, tom. xix. p. 435,) and native
America by the Spanish historians, (Garcilasso de la Vega,
l. iii. c. 13, Rycaut's translation; and Dictionnaire de
Bayle, tom. iii. p. 88.) I believe, and hope, that the
negroes, in their own country, were exempt from this moral
pestilence.]