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road ; but I am persuaded, if we tarried in 

 Holland for a sufficient length of time, and 

 became acquainted with the chiefs of the land, 

 we should have spacious stores of information 

 opened to our view. The zoological treasures of 

 private individuals from Java, and Sumatra, and 

 Surinam, must be very valuable ; and the per- 

 sonal adventures of the Dutch in those remote 

 countries are no doubt replete with instruction. 

 Surinam, so famous for its far extending forests, 

 its rivers, plains, and swamps, is still possessed by 

 Holland, as I have remarked above. I conceive 

 she is keeping an anxious eye on the working of 

 the new system forced upon her lost daughter 

 Demerara. Should philanthropists of Holland 

 loudly call for negro-emancipation, methinks 

 they ought to have it, with this proviso, how- 

 ever, — that those who demand the freedom of 

 the slave, should be saddled with the expenses 

 attending it. When our own benevolents were 

 urging the consummation of this affair in 

 England, our minister, in justice to the nation 

 at large, ought to have remarked : " I will grant 

 negro emancipation so soon as you yourselves, 

 and your supporters shall have produced from 

 your own purses, a sum sufficient to cover the 



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