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country, and that they were to subsist them- 

 selves by their bodily labour ; it seems certain, 

 that the whole colony would soon become 

 extinct. On the other hand, the greater liabi- 

 lity of negroes in Europe to be attacked with 

 fatal diseases is equally well established. If, 

 therefore, a colony of the former race were 

 brought to Europe, and forced to labour in the 

 open air for their subsistence, many of them 

 would quickly die, and the remainder, from 

 their inability to make great bodily exertions 

 in cold weather, and their being frequently 

 diseased, would be prevented from working an 

 equal number of days in the year with the 

 whites. The consequence would be, that with- 

 out taking farther into account the unfriend- 

 liness of the climate to them, their gains would 

 be inadequate to the maintenance of themselves 

 and their families. They would thence become 

 feeble, and be rendered still more incapable of 

 supporting life by their labour. In the mean 

 time, their children would die from want, or 

 diseases induced by deficient or improper nou- 

 rishment, and in this way, a colony of the negro 

 race in a cold country would quickly cease to 

 exist. 



This difference in the capacity of the two 

 races to resist the operation of the causes of 

 many diseases, I assume as a fact, though I am 



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