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 northern country, could have come into France?—It might be solved in many different ways, all equally probable. But the difficulty here is, to account not only for the two separate embarkations, of which Le Blanc retains the remembrance, but likewise for her being carried to, and remaining some time in a country where there were sugar canes and cassave; and further for the black colour with which she was painted. Though here it is by no means our province or intention to compose a romance, or to devise imaginary adventures, yet where certainty is wanting, we must look for probability. Of all the different suppositions I have formed for connecting the various circumstances of this history, what follows is the simplest and the most probable.

is well known, that all the European nations who have colonies in America, are obliged to carry thither slaves to cultivate the ground, and to prepare its different productions, such as sugar, indigo, tobacco, chocolate, coffee, &c. The Negroes of Africa, when carried to the West Indies, a climate much of the same temperature with their own, accommodate themselves to it without any difficulty, and thrive extremely well; but all attempts to naturalize the savages of the northern regions to that country, have proved unsuccessful. The English, Dutch, and Danes