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6761. POPULATION, Extension of.—[continued].

The soil of the country
on the western side of the Mississippi, its climate
and its vicinity to the United States, point
it out as the first which will receive population
from that nest. The present occupiers will just
have force enough to repress and restrain the
emigrations to a certain degree of consistence.—
To M. de Meunier. Washington ed. ix, 276. Ford ed., iv, 180.
(P. 1786)