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fold, for the expences of that which is here proposed.

The millions that have. been recently expended on the islands of New Holland, and St. Domingo, are in the greatest part lost to this nation;—with scarcely the most distant hope of any return being made for them: whereas the few thou- sands which are required for the im- provement of our own island, will remain wholly within it;—with a fair prospect of return, for the portion of labor, which the prosecution of its improvement may incur.‘The risk is small,—the chance of gain incomparably great.

5. AS A PLACE OF DISSEMINATION.— Improvements in physic and surgery are disseminated by the hospitals, infirmaries, or medical institutes,—not of the metro- polis only, but by those which are now dispersed over almost every part of the country; and new maxims, in law, are promulgated, by the whole body in cir-

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