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Excerpt from Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the United States of America, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies, Vol. 1 of 4
The inhabitants of Europe are not infenfrhle of thc favoura l-le circnmllances. The charms of civrl and rehgrous liberty, the advantages of an extenfrve and fertile, but uncultivated country, of an increafrng commerce, unlhacltlcd and unencumbered by l.eavy and impolitic duties and impolis, have alreadv invited numbers to leave its bofomu-numbers, which the iron hand of perfecution and the awful prolpeets of rntellirc divrlion or ahjeft ilrverv, will continue to increale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
