Having had little time, and scarcely any opportunity, to become acquainted with the customs he pretends to describe, he writes them down one after another in an off-hand, haphazard style; and were the book thus produced to be translated into the tongue of the people of whom it purports to give the history, it would appear quite as wonderful to them as it does to the American public, and much more improbable.
For my own part, I am free to confess my almost entire inability to gratify any curiosity that may be felt with regard to the theology of the valley.

I doubt whether the inhabitants themselves could do so.

They are either too lazy or too sensible to worry themselves about abstract points of religious belief.

While I was among them, they never held any synods or councils to settle the principles of their faith by agitating them.

An unbounded liberty of conscience seemed to prevail.