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proceeding, with great elation of hope, to 

 another land ; and depicts the most brilliant 

 results from the vast accession of numbers, 

 industry, and wealth, thus acquired by the 

 newly-sought country ; but truth steps in and 

 destroys the illusion. No country of any 

 extent can be peopled at once by emigra- 

 tion ; nor, speaking generally, does wealth 

 change its quarters, except by slow degrees, 

 or industry seek employment in a foreign 

 land, except through necessity, or from the 

 assured or understood prospect of greater 

 advantages. 



The population, therefore, of any country 

 msut, for the greater part, originate in the 

 country itself. This has been the case with 

 all territories colonized by Europeans ; and 

 thus it is, that when considerable tracts of 

 land have become, to a certain extent, 

 peopled, a spirit of independence is engen- 

 dered amongst the indigenous population ; 



