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ous and thrifty, ready for any sacrifice to enjoy the liberty 

 of conscience denied them at home, they would have 

 rejoiced to build up a French state in the New World. 

 No other desirable class of the population of France waa 

 inclined for immigration. It was with great difficulty 

 that from time to time the feeble colony could be recruited, 

 at vast expense, and with inferior material. Meanwhile, 

 hundreds of thousands of expatriated Huguenots carried 

 into Protestant countries of Northern Europe, and into the 

 British colonies of North America, the capital, the indus- 

 trial skill, the intelligence, the moral worth, that might 

 have enriched the French possessions, and secured to the 

 Gallic race a vast domain upon the North American 

 continent." 



