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and I am opinion that it would redound greatly to 

 the advantage of the ftate, were they to be much 

 more numerous than they are at prefent. Men con- 

 ilitute the principal riches of the Sovereign, and 

 Canada, fhould it be of no other ufe to France, 

 would ftill be, were it well peopled, one of the moft 

 important of all our colonies. 



I am y &:c 



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