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though it augments the labour in clear- 

 ing lands, is far from being the leaft 

 advantageous produdtion of this coun- 

 try. 



Many of the largeft and moft flou-< 

 rifhing Plantations, both in EJfequebo 

 and Demerary, but efpecially in the lat- 

 ter, are the property of Britijh fubjedts, 

 who have been induced to form fettle - 

 ments in this Country, by the peculiar 

 advantages with which it is endowed; 

 and though the Dutch in Surinam, and 

 all their other Colonies, are ignorant of 

 the art of converting Melaffes to Rum, 

 with advantage, yet in this Colony they 

 have been, by the Englijh inhabitants, 

 perfectly inftrudled in the arts of Diftil- 

 jation, and produce Rum, which is not 

 inferior, in any refpedt, even to that of 

 Jamaica. The White Inhabitants of 

 this Colony are Dutch, Englijh, French* 

 Swifs, and Germans, but chiefly the 



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