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use, than any other set of people. They are nearly self-suf- 

 ficient. They have naturalized themselves in South America 

 far more completely than any other Europeans. They are 

 really more puzzled to send home their taxes, than to supply 

 their domestic consumption, whenever a war interrupts their 

 intercourse with old Spain. 



The Spaniards have come to America, because there is room 

 to live with litde labor. Their numbers expand with the quiet 

 regularity of patriarchal families. They place wise conduct 

 in actual enjoyment ; not in the restless pursuit of riches to be 

 displayed in old age among new acquaintance and in another 

 hemisphere. Those, who leave Spain, come to stay, and not 

 to return. They consider their adopted country, not as a 

 counting-house where they are to earn a fortune, but as an es- 

 tate where they are to found a family. And thus, though 

 each life is less productive of emolument to the individual, it 

 bequeaths more to the prosperity of the region. The English 

 build wooden houses very fast ; the Spaniards very slow, but 

 with brick and stone. Churches rise beside their dwellings; 

 and so do schools and colleges. The latin grammar of Nebrija 

 may be inferior to the Eton grammar ; but it is taught in the 

 colonies. The English send home their children for the very 

 elements of education. 



Hence there is great value in a settled population of the Spa- 

 nish breed ; they are a pledge for enduring unremoving pros- 



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