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, health to languor, and vigour to want. Whether one man at home, be not worth more than three abroad; and whether the time that is loſt in one month, often might not have been filled up by employments, that would have ſubſiſted four times the number of individuals, is likewiſe a queſtion to be aſked. The Eaſt, the Weſt Indies, and Africa have been the grave of Europeans. The marrow of England has been melted down in the unhealthy regions of the torrid zone: ſome may have eſcaped the partial diſſolution, but the proportion is ſo very ſmall, that theſe emigrations may be conſidered as the general forerunners of deſtruction. If an eſtimate were to be made of all the lives that have been loſt by navigation in the courſe of ten years, the amount would be ſo enormous, that people would turn from the account with horror; and in the ſpirit of humanity, of anticipation of future loſs, be inclined to ſacrifice intereſt to ſupport our population. If the profits of trade be oppoſed by its loſſes, the adventurers would perhaps find that the innumerable cargoes that have been ſwallowed up by