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Some account of St Helena

advantage of a free intercourse with all parts of the globe Habitable to them without being driven to the Necessity of tempting the dangers of an element unsuited to their natures   a fatal necessity under which too many even of us Lords of the Creation Yearly perish & of all others through the wide bounds of Creation how vast a proportion must  the seed of a thistle supported by its down  the Insect by its weak & the Bird by its more able wing  may tempt the dangers of the sea  but of these how many milions must perish for one who arrives at the Distance of twelve hundred miles from the place of his maturity rest  it appears indeed far more dificult to account for or belong the passage of one individual than to belive the destruction of all that ever may have been by their ill fate hurried into such an attempt

Money of all nations passes here according to its real intrinsick European value  therefore there is no kind of trouble on that head as in all the Dutch Settlements

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