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PREFACE. 
an equal profperitv among the plantations of 
other European nations becaufe every power has 
tranfplanted its conftitution with its people. 
This furprizing increafe of people is a founda- 
tion that will bear a mighty fuperftruclure, we 
need no other proof than in the wonderful 
growth of one of the provinces, ( ‘Peujikqania 
I mean) which tho’ the youngeft of all, yet 
being more particularly founded qn the princi- 
ples of moderation {the jirjl of all political Vir- 
tues') and every way fam’d for the wifdom and 
lenity of its government, is become the admi- 
ration of thofe who compare it with any thing 
related by hiftory, and the well-known refuge 
of -the opp refs’d and perjecuted, who chear- 
iully, abandon their native foil to purchale the 
incftimabic blefhngs of liberty and peace. 
The inhabitants of all thefe colonies have 
eminently delerved the character of induflrious 
in agriculture and commerce. I could wifn 
they had as well defer ved that of adventurous 
in inland difeoueries, in this they have been 
much outdone by another Nation , whole po- 
verty of country and unfettled temper have 
prompted them to fuch views of extending 
their pofTeflions, as our agriculture and com- 
merce now make neceflary for us to imitate. 
In this skilful Perfons may employ themfelves ; 
but a more accurate obferver than our author 
will not readily be found. 
The welfare of a colony concerns the country 
from whence it derives its origin, in nothing fb 
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