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I would beg the reader, as he shuts my book, to refer to those 

 sixteen hnes^ for they convey a better idea of its blessings in this 

 respect, than I have done in as many pages'. 



''OWa:'/)' H2--128. 



■ I have just learned, from the best Portuguese authority, that, by the census lately 

 made, the inhabitants amount to 98,000 and a fraction; that of 1813, as I have 

 already submitted, gave 90,916 ; so that the increase in ten years is fourteen per cent, 

 or the same as that of Great Britain in the ten years between 1801 and 1811. 



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