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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.
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