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This account of our author's feems to have been tiiken upon memory, and is not very exa£t.
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But before we leave it entirely, let us exhibit a fummary view of its phyfical conftitution; a view which feems to me the more requifite from this conftitution being in great meafure the fame as that of the neighbouring lands, and efpecially of Schouten Ifland and Freycind Peninfula.
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But fince that time, it feems a point generally agreed, that this ifland had not before any particular name; and therefore, in all fubfequent voyages, we find it conftantly mendohed by the name of Schovten's Ifland.
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I am well aware that the degrees of longitude being inexad, the reft muft be very uncertain; but the courfe traced prefents no difficulty, and feems to have a foundation* The track laid down as purfued by Magellap by other geographets is purely ideal.
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The Chinefe quarter is the moft populous of all, and feems itfdif a dty, with numerous ftreets; yet their houfes are mean, and little.
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Sir George Staun - ton, sot to be Icfs any year than 150,0001. fterling, though, by the Dutch account of their Chma trade, which is given a little farther on, this feems to be an extravagant computation.
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It feems even to have no very neceffary connexion with that of the world in general.
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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It feems that fome haAy words I had juft befoi'e ufed to the failor, which he thought refie&ed on his courage, was the caufe of this odd fancy in him; and the old gunner finding a point of honour flarted, thought he could not well avoid taking a part in it.
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The fruit of the iflands are a few plantains, bonanoes, pine*apple8, pumpkins, fugar canes, &c. and there might be more if the natives would, for the ground feems fertile enough.
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Upon paying a fine to the king, the charter feems ge - nerally to have been readily granted; and when any particular clafs of artificers or traders thought proper to a6l as a corporation without a charter, fuch adulterine guilds, as they were called, were not always disfranchifed upon that account, but obliged to fine annually to the king for permiffion to exercife their ufurped pri - vileges *.
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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