An essay on colonization, particularly applied to the Western coast of Africa, with some free thoughts on cultivation and commerce; also brief descriptions of the colonies already formed, or attempted ... in Africa, including those of Sierra Leone and Bulama |
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... proper to land .-- -Thus the author's opportunities of obfervation were uncommonly favourable , and he flatters himfelf he did not let them escape altogether unimproved . The chief objects of his enquiry and obfervation in Africa were ...
... proper to land .-- -Thus the author's opportunities of obfervation were uncommonly favourable , and he flatters himfelf he did not let them escape altogether unimproved . The chief objects of his enquiry and obfervation in Africa were ...
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... proper improve- ments , of producing fo many things delightful as well as convenient , seems utterly neglected by those who are civi- lized themselves * . " It may not be amifs briefly to flate what appear to me to have been among the ...
... proper improve- ments , of producing fo many things delightful as well as convenient , seems utterly neglected by those who are civi- lized themselves * . " It may not be amifs briefly to flate what appear to me to have been among the ...
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... proper encouragement , they would make excellent workmen . All men are idle till incited to induf- try , by their natural or artificial wants . Their foil easily fupplies their natural neceffities , and the whites have never II . tried ...
... proper encouragement , they would make excellent workmen . All men are idle till incited to induf- try , by their natural or artificial wants . Their foil easily fupplies their natural neceffities , and the whites have never II . tried ...
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... proper channel ? 25. The flave - trade diflurbs their agriculture ftill more than their manufactures ; for men will not be fond of plant- ing who have not a moral certainty of reaping . Yet , even without enjoying that certainty , they ...
... proper channel ? 25. The flave - trade diflurbs their agriculture ftill more than their manufactures ; for men will not be fond of plant- ing who have not a moral certainty of reaping . Yet , even without enjoying that certainty , they ...
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... proper dimensions is therefore chofen , perhaps fourteen or fifteen miles up the country , which being cut into the requi- fite length , but not hollowed , left it should be rent by acci- dent , or by the heat of the fun , the people of ...
... proper dimensions is therefore chofen , perhaps fourteen or fifteen miles up the country , which being cut into the requi- fite length , but not hollowed , left it should be rent by acci- dent , or by the heat of the fun , the people of ...
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Africa againſt alfo almoſt alſo anſwer APPENDIX Beaver beſt Britiſh buſineſs cauſe CHAP chief civilization climate coaft coaſt coloniſts colony commerce Company's confequence confiderable cultivation defire Directors Ditto Engliſh eſpecially eſtabliſhment European expenſe faid fame feems fent fervants fervice fettlers feveral fhall fhips fhore fimilar fince firſt fituation flave-trade flaves fome foon Foulahs Freetown French fubject fuccefs fuch fufficient fugar fupply fupport governor Granville Sharp grumettas himſelf houſes increaſe Indies induſtry intereft iſland Jamaica John juſt King labour land laſt leaſt lefs Leona and Bulama Leona Company leſs meaſure Mifs moft moſt mulatto muſt natives neceffary negroes obferved perfons Portugueſe preſent propoſed provifions purchaſe purpoſe raiſed reaſon reſpecting river ſaid ſay Scotians ſee ſeems Senegal ſeveral ſhall ſhip ſhould Sierra Leona ſmall ſome ſtate ſuch thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion trade uſed veffels Weft Weſt whoſe