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POPULA- dog, fev 



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ral 



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cocks and hens, and frequently two or three 



pigs 



All this not only affords a fuperfluity, but likewife a great variety 

 of animal and vegetable food. The bark of the morus papyriferat 

 the bread-fruit tree, and fome others, afford them materials for an 



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eafy, light, and warm kind of clothing ; which they manufadure 

 of various qualities, cut into various fhapes, and dye with various 



colours. Food and raiment, th 



wo 



g 



wants of the human 



fpecies, are therefore eafily fupplied, and the inhabitants are hither- 

 to fortunate enough to have none of the artificial wants, which 

 •luxury, avarice, and ambition have introduced among Europeans. 

 The call of nature is heard at an early age in this genial climate : 



"the inhabitants therefore foon begin to chufe 



an agreeable partner 



for life, happy in the pleafing expediation of feeing themfelves re- 

 jprefented, and as it were reproduced in a numerous offspring. 



Thefe circumflances, v/hen compared with the many wants of 

 our civilized ftate, the labours we mufl undergo in fupplying thefe 

 wants, and efpecially thofe which are moft indifpenfible in our 

 climates, and the many difficulties preceding and attendant on our 



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marriages, will be fuiiicient to p 

 of things. 



th 



natural 



rfe 



population muil be great in thefe happy regions. 



But 



.this reafoning does not give a clear and precife idea of the fubjed, 

 I will therefore attempt to enable the reader to make a near eflimate 

 <of the real population of this and all the adjacent iiles. 



