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country, grow the more formidable from their multitude : I fpeak 

 chiefly of imported Africans, who are the moft to be feared. Men 

 mufl firft believe their life and fortune tolerably fecure, before they 

 will venture to fettle. But if the troops, inftead of being gar- 

 rifoned in the internal parts, where the greatefl: danger lies, where 

 the fettlements are few and fcattered, and incapable of defending 

 themfelves, are ranged along the coafts, which in time of peace 

 . require, no fuch guards, and at any time are leafl: healthy, and too 

 remote from the centre to afford a feafonable relief; can the in- 

 •liabitants be faid to receive that degree of proteftion from tiiem» 

 to which they are entitled ? It may perhipsbe never prudent to 

 leave the maritime forts without fome garrifon, to prevent fur- 

 prizes ; and the larger towns require a fufficiently ftrong guard, 

 for many obvious reafons. To anfwer therefore every one of thefe 

 purpofes, we may fuppofe the following eftabli(hment of a corps, 

 for this fervice, to confifl: of 



Twenty companies, of fifty privates each, looo 



Two field-officers, 



Twenty captains. 



Twenty lieutenants. 



Thirty furgeons mates. 



Two furgeons in chief. 



Forty ferjeants. 



Twenty corporals, -== — — — — ' 134 



The complement total, 1034 

 The offices of barrack-mafters and adjutants might be executed 

 by fome of the wwr of officers. 



For their cantonment in time of peace, I propofe the following 

 fcheme; by which it will appear, that the principal towns and 

 port are well guarded, and the mofl unfettled diftri^ts as well de- 

 fended, as the number can admit on the fcale of an equal protedion. 



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