FRAGMENT. 2H 



I extended myfelf, in imagination, over the flice 

 of thofe immenfe forefts. There I condruded 

 forts ; I cleared large tracks of land ; I covered 

 them with copious harvefts, and with orchards pre- 

 fenting overflowing crops of all the fruits foreign 

 to Europe. There I offered an afylum to the men 

 of all Nations, the individuals of which I had feen 

 in diftrefs. There 1 planted the men of Holland 

 and of Switzerland, who have no territory' in their 

 own Country; and Ruffians deftitute of the means 

 of eftablifhing themfelves in their vafb folitudes 

 at home; Englifhmen tired of the convulfions of 

 their popular liberty, and Italians, of the lethargy 

 of their ariflocratical governments j P ruffians 

 fick of their military defpotifm, and Poles, of their 

 republican anarchy ; Spaniards, of the intolerance 

 of religious opinions, and Frenchmen, of the le- 

 vity of theirs; Knights of Malta and Algerines; 

 thepeafantry of Bohemia, Poland, Ruffia, Franche- 

 Comté, Lower Brittany, efcaped from the tyranny 

 of their compatriots; the runaway Negro Haves of 

 our barbarous colonies ; the protedors, and the pro- 

 tedted, of all Nations; courtiers, gownmen, fcho- 

 Urs, foldiers, merchants, financiers ; every un- 

 fortunate wretch tormented with the maladies of 

 European, African, and Afiatic opinions, all of 

 them, with very few exceptions, aiming at mutual 

 oppreffion, and re-aifling upon each other, by vio- 

 lence or cunning, impiety or fuperftitioij. 



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