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years, contended with the moft powerful and 

 moft commercial nation in the world, under 

 the prodigious difadvantage in numbers of 

 two to one at firft; and yet at laft over- 

 powered by numbers all the armies which 

 that nation could tranfport, owing to their 

 being in their own country. Add to all this, 

 that, during the time of the American war, 

 our commerce and manufactures flourifhed 

 more than ever, while that of our enemies 

 was utterly deflroyed, and great numbers of 

 their towns burnt. Some caufe therefore 

 muft be found, by which the population of 

 America continued undiminifhed, nay, feem- 

 ed rather to increafe under all the calamities 

 of war, while that of Great Britain, though 

 at a diftance from all thefe calamities, was by 

 no means increafed. 



To find out this caufe, we muft again take 

 a review of the hiftory of mankind from the 

 earlieft ages. 



The Jews, as has already been obferved,were 

 the moft populous, and ftrongeft nation upon 

 earth, in proportion to the extent of their 

 country. They were under the peculiar tui- 

 tion of the Deity indeed ; but ftill we know, 

 that natural means were employed for the 



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