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PoPULA- in it, it rather confifls in having formed too fmall an eftimate, or 



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if any particular account fliould exceed the true number, it muft- 

 be in New Caledonia. 



Secondly, The population of countries encreafes in the fame 

 proportion with civilization and cultivation. Not that I believe 

 civilization or cultivation to be the true caufes of a greater popu- 



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lation; but they are rather, in my opinion, its eiFe<5ls. As foon 

 as the numbers- inereafe in a confined place, viz. an ifland, to fuch 

 a degree, that its inhabitants are obliged to Cultivate fome pbnts 



for their food, becaufe the natural v^ild productions are ho longer 

 fufHcient, they then devife methods for performing this tafk in an 

 eafy and proper manner; they find, themfelves obliged to obtain 

 from others, the feeds and roots, to ftipulate among themfelves, 

 not to deftroy each others plantations; to defend them jointly 

 againfl the violence of invaders, and to give each other mutual 

 affiftance. Such are the beginnings of arts and cultivation, fuch is 

 the rife of civil focieties; fooner or later they caufe diilindions of 



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rank, and the various degrees of pov/er, influence, and wealthy 



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which, more or lefs are obferved among mankind. Nay, they 

 often produce a material difference in the colour, habits, and forms 



of the human fpecies, of v/hich,. we fliall now treat more at large.' 



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