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To such as have inherited Plantations 

 from their ancestors, we may likewise 

 drop a word. For independent of the 

 ideas of public spirit and private utilitjj 

 they have a call (a powerful one !) to 

 tend with care the objects of their ances- 

 tors' solicitude. If they had left a clause 

 in their wills, that it should be done, the 

 omission would indeed be considered as un- 

 pardonable ; but certainly no such docu- 

 ment is wanted, to shew that such was really 

 their will ! as every tree, so planted, is a 

 living evidence of the interesting fact. — 

 How often must such have gratified them- 

 selves with contemplating the gran- 

 PEUR, shelter, and worth, which their 

 works were adding to the domain. It is in- 

 deed obvious, that a planters* principal gra- 

 tification must often be in the idea of be- 

 nefiting posterity ; and, therefore, that pos- 



and often ten iimes^faster in prepared than in unpre* 

 pared ground; and of course, the return of profits will 

 be correspondent!'''* 



