Essays of Benjamin Franklin

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-127700

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Author:: Franklin, Benjamin http://d-nb.info/gnd/118534912

Title:: Essays of Benjamin Franklin

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: G. P. Putnam's Sons

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: xi, 273 Seiten

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: II. The interest of Great Britain considered, with regard to her colonies and the acquisitions of Canada and Guadaloupe

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64 Benjamin Franklin [1760 of the nature of population in new countries. When we first began to colonize in America, it was neces- sary to send people, and to send seed-corn; but it is not now necessary that we should furnish, for a new colony, either the one or the other. The annual in- crement alone of our present colonies, without dimin- ishing their numbers, or requiring a man from hence, is sufficient in ten years to fill Canada with double the number of English that it now has of French inhabitants. Those who are Protestants among the French will probably choose to remain under the English government; many will choose to remove, if they can be allowed to sell their lands, improve- ments, and effects; the rest in that thin-settled country will in less than half a century, from the crowds of English settling round and among them, be blended and incorporated with our people both in language and manners. 8. The Merits of Guadaloupe to Great Britain over- valued, yet likely to be paid much dearer for, than Canada. In Guadaloupe the case is somewhat different; and though I am far from thinking * we have sugar-land enough,® I cannot think Guadaloupe is so desirable 1 In fact, there have not gone from Britain itself to our colonies, these twenty years past, to settle there, so many as ten families a year; the new settlers are either the offspring of the old, or emigrants from Germany or the north of Ireland. 2 Remarks, pp. 39, 34- 3 Tt is often said, we have plenty of sugar-land still unemployed in Jamaica; but those who are well acquainted with that island know that the remaining vacant land in it is generally situated among moun- tains. rocks. and gullies, that make carriage impracticable, so that no : 1 [= B

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