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Show IO THOUGHTS ON THE [G. P.] PEOPL‘ING or COUNTRIES. u dually fowed and overfpread with one kind only; as for inflance, with fennel; and were it empty ofother inhabitants, it might, in a few ages, be repleniihed from one nation only, as for inflance, with Eng/flint)". Thus there are {uppofed to be now upwards of one million of Eng- lz'jb fouls in North America (though-it is thought fupplied; cutit in two, and each deficient part {hall fpeedily grow out of the part remaining. Thus, (if you have room and fubfif'cence enough) as you may, by dividing, make ten polypufes out of one , you may, of one, make ten nations, equally populous and powerful; or rather, in- fcarce 80,000 have been brought over-{ea 9k) and creafe a nation tenfold in numbers and firength. ‘ yet perhaps there is not one the fewer in Britain, 9K- ete as 916 9E. ‘ but rather many more, on account of the employment the colonies afford to manufaéturers at home. This million doubling, fuppofe but once in 25 years, will, in another century, be more than the people of England, and the greateft number of Eng/z'flamm will be on this fide the «MWW‘W ‘ water. What an acceflion of power to the Britz'fb empire by fea as well as land ! What increafe of trade and navigation! What numbers offhips and feameu ! We have been here but little more than a hundred years, and yet the force of our privateers in the late war, united, was greater both in men and guns, than that of the whole Britifh navy in queen Elizabeth's time. How important an affair then to Britain, is the pre- fent treaty + for fettling the bounds between her colonies and the Frencb ! and how careful thould {he be to fecure room enough, fince on the room depends fo much the increafe of her people P 23. In line, a nation well regulated is like a polypusi; take away a limb, its place is [con * [N. B. This was written in theyear 1751. E.] 1- In 17 5 t. I An water-infeét, well known to Naturalills. fup- Extrafls |