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"A great advantage which the French have over the English in their sugar colonies, is their Agrarian law, whereby monopolists are prevented from engrossing too much land; so that the number of whites is greatly increased, the land improved, more commodities raised, the planters obliged to a more frugal way of living, and all things rendered cheaper. By these means Martinico can muster 16,000 fighting men; but Ja|maica, which is near three times as large, only 4000."
TUCKER on trade.
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