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 Guiana be worth looking after, with respect to its Fourth 



Journey. 



supposed mnies. The mining speculations at present are 



flowing doAvn another channel. The rage in England for 

 working the mines of other states has now risen to such 

 a pitch, that it would require a considerable degree of 

 caution in a mere wanderer of the Avoods, in stepping 

 forward, to say any thing that might tend to raise or 

 depress the spirits of the speculators. 



A question or two, however, might be asked. When 

 the revolted colonies shall have repaired in some measure 

 the ravages of war, and settled their own political 

 economy upon a firm foundation, Avill they quietly submit 

 to see foreigners carrying away those treasures which are 

 absolutely part of their own soil, and which necessity 

 (necessity has no law) forced them to barter away in 

 their hour of need ? Now, if it should so happen that the 

 masters of the country begin to repent of their bargain, 

 and become envious of the riches which foreigners carry 

 olf, many a teasing law might be made, and many a 

 vexatious enaction might be put in force, that would, in 

 all probability, bring the speculators into trouble and 

 disappointment. 



Besides this consideration, there is another circum- 

 stance which ought not to be overlooked. 1 allude to 

 the change of masters nearly throughout the whole of 

 America. It is a curious subject for the European philo- 

 sopher to moralize upon, and for the politician to 



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