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Show (9) ( 8 l Migration. further Encouragment is necefi'ai'y ~, for Grants If‘ the Colony lhould at firli regret in the New, will always be prefered to the like Grants in the old Colonies : Novelty and Uncertainty attracts Adventurers, who belides ideal Allurements, may depend upon real Advantages, they have their Choice to a great Degree of the Lands they will take up, and the firfl: that are taken up will probably in a few Years become their Departure, the Lofs will quickly be rem paired by [hole who are left, and who in a few Years will be able to fill up the Intervals {till remaining between the feveral Settlements ; and with relpecl; to the Mother Country, it is cer~~ tainly very defirable that her People lhould be fpread along every Coalt and every River with- valuable E tates; with thefe and many other in her Dominions ; for the Means ofSublil‘tance Circurnitances of Recommendation, there can be no doubt that the new Colonies, when put upon the fame Footing with the other, will be peopled very ibon. will go thither. Many foreign Proteltants I fear they will be too much reforted to from thefe Kingdoms, and from Ire- Jami, unit-ls Employment can be found at home for thole who mutt elfe leek it at a dil'tance -, but will be eafier there, than in the interior Parts of the old Colonies : The Settlers will eonlctiuer‘itly multiply taller, and their Confiimption of our hrlzintirhéttires will in the End be greater; they mutt apply to Agriculture alone ; their Plantintions will be open to immediate Accels, as well for receiving our Supply, as for returning to us their Produce; and neither the old nor the new Colony, [0 long as they have Lands given them the grt'atfiii: fwuyply will be from A'mrrim itfelt‘; for itch has bu n the Population of that Coun~ try, that many Parts of it can ali'ord to fur- to cultivate, will have Hands, nor be at leifure nilh lnhahmnts to 011915. The e: terprizing Spirit and Fel‘fion for l_)ilcovei‘y, which led its. iril Settlers thither, is not extinct in their firengthened, Polterity, who are fi‘ill inclined to rove in quelh of new Habitations: They are all bred to the «idea of clearing frelh Lands, and of acquiring to themlElves inch Ellates as their Fathers ac- quired, by more Means which they have teen to fuccelsf‘ul in their own Families. In the Pro- vinces which are not yet well lt-ttled, this Principieoperatts within the Provinces thcml'elves; but there are fome, in which the greaterl'art of the Lands near the Sea Coaf'ts and Banks of RL. vets, are already occupied; and there the fame Principle impcls the. younger Inhabitants to to turn to Manufactures: the Conneftion of both with the Mother-Country is thereby and thus our new Acquifitions inltead of making the Brita/r Empire too great and unwieldly; on the contrary, enhance, the, Value, and lEcure the Dependance of our for mer l'ofiemons, That the. granting of Lands in the new Ac~ quiiitions upon the fame Terms as they are granted in the other Colonies, will alone pro-duce the Ell‘eft l have defcribed, is not l‘virttter of Speculation only, but is founded upon conflant Experience, brought down to the prefent Time by very recent Infiances. That Part of 5.7mm: Swim, which was held by the neutral freer/i, has fince their Removal been reforr'zd to Mizra‘ |