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would be too happy if like the ancient Peruvians
under the Incas they could remain under the
government of a more civilised race, with eyes
and attachments fixed to the spot and backs
turned to the ignorant and unfailing government
of a distant clime.
If the productions of a colony could be
confined to that colony spot and the rate of taxation
may be made to rise ad liberum with
the avarice of the exacter an advantage more
or less considerable might be derived from the
possession<add> premium over that colony by were the colonists weak enough
to submitt to it by a taxation of imports
into the mother country from that colony, and were the Colonists weak
enough to submitt to it by a taxation of the
imports into that Colony from the
country or elsewhere: But few are the instances
on which the production of any Colony
can be confined to that colony: the rate of taxation
of imports into the Mother Country form the colony as from every other
place is limited by the faculty of smuggling:
and
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