Excerpt from The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Vol. 1 of 2 After all, my firfi: object has been truth, not. Novelty. I have endeavoured to collect ufeful knowledge wherefoever it lay, and when I found books that could (apply what I fought, I have fometimes been content to adopt, without alteration, what was thus fur nifhed to my hands. Jthus, extracts and paf fages from former writers occupy fome of my pages; and not having always been careful to note the authorities to which I ...
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Excerpt from The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Vol. 1 of 2 After all, my firfi: object has been truth, not. Novelty. I have endeavoured to collect ufeful knowledge wherefoever it lay, and when I found books that could (apply what I fought, I have fometimes been content to adopt, without alteration, what was thus fur nifhed to my hands. Jthus, extracts and paf fages from former writers occupy fome of my pages; and not having always been careful to note the authorities to which I reforted, I find it now too late to afcertain the full extent of my obligations of this kind. They may be traced moft fi'equently, I believe, in the firfi and lait parts of my work: In the firfi, be caufe, when I began my talk, I had lefs con fidence in my own refources than I found after wards, when practice had rendered writing familiar to me and in the laft, becaufe, when. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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