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Fifliery, it remains only to inquire how far it is, or may be- 
come, value as a colony, or territorial acquifition, intrinfically, 
and independent of other confiderations; This point will beft 
be afcertained by a topographical defcription and a ftatiftical 
iketch of the fettlement, which will be the fubjedt of the fol- 
lowing chapter, and with which I fliall clofe the prefent vo- 
lume» 
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