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Show THOUGHTS on THE [G. P.] 3. In cities, where all trades, occupations, and offices are full, many delay marrying, till they can fee how to bear the charges of a family; PEOPLING 0F Couurams. 3 Could be by hunters; yet thefe having large tracts, were eafily prevailed on to part with por- Hence cities do not, by natural ge- tions of territory to the new comers, who did not much interfere with the natives in hunting, and furnifhed them with many things they wanted. 6. Land being thus plenty in fliizerim, and {0 cheap as that a labouring man that underftands neration, fupply themfelves with inhabitants: the hufbandry, can, in a fhort time, fave money deaths are more than the births. 4.. In countries full fettled, the cafe mui't be Enough to purchaie a piece of new land, fuflicient nearly the fame; all lands being occupied and improved to the heighth, thofe who cannot get land, mull labour for others that have it; vhen t'uch are not afraid to marry; for if they even labourers are plenty, their wages will be low; by low wages a lamily is {upported with difficulty; for, they fee that more land is to be had at rates this difliculty deters many from marriage, who, 7. Hence marriages in America are more general, and more generally early than in Europe. And if it is reckoned there that flaw is but one marriage per Atrium: among 103 perfons, perhaps which charges are greater in cities, as luxury is more common : many live fingle during life, and continue fervants to families, journeymen to traders, 86c. therefore, long continue fervants and tingle.- Only as the cities talte fupplies of people from the country, and thereby make a little more room in the country, marriage is a little more encouraged there, and the births exceed the deaths. for a plantation, whereon he may fubfit": a family ; look far enough forward to confider how their children, when grown up, are to be provided equally eafy, all circumftances confidered. we may here reckon two,- and if in Europe they have but {our births to a marriage, (many of their marriages being late) we may here reckon eight ; 5. Great part ofEu/‘opc is full fettled with huf- bandmen, manufacturers, 66c. and therefore cam not now much encreafe in people. America is chiefly occupied by India/2r, who fubfiit moftly of which, if one halfgrow up, and our marriages are made, reckoning one with another, at twenty years of age, our people muft at leail be doubled every twenty years. by hunting-But as the hunter, of all men, re» guires the greatef't quantity of land from whence 8. But notwithllanding this increafe, to vaft is the territory of Nari/5 d/mrzl‘a, that it will require to draw his fubliflence, (the hutbandman fubfif'ta- many ages to fettle it fully; and till it is fully ing on much lets, the gardener on {till lefs, and the manufacturer requiring leaf't of all) the Eu.- fettled, labour will never be cheap here, where no man continues long a labourer for others, but gets a plantation of his own; no man continues ropmrzr found {Interim as fully fettled as it well ' ' souls B 2 long |