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in comfort and competence in a residence on their 
own estates; secondly, mountain settlements in 
general increase in negro population, being more 
healthy than the low lands. The first circumstance 
will add to our security, so necessary at present, 
and which at all periods, we have in vain attempt¬ 
ed, by other means, to effect. The second opens 
a prospect of an abolition of the slave trade, and 
that at no distant period of time, by natural causes, 
which will gradually take place without giving 
reason for complaint to any body of men. 
Jamaica, 1793. 
