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( 141 ) Duncan, and Fitzmaurice; and these declare, that where such moral and religious instruction have been encouraged, the slaves have shewn a better disposition and behaviour; that they have also paid a more general attention to marriage, and that they have increased more by the births.

Having now mentioned the principal regulations which the evidence suggests, in addition to those recommended in the former chapter, for producing a natural increase of the slaves, it is plain that were all those regulations combined, and generally enforced in the colonies, that increase would be proportionably accelerated. C H A P.