orts and garrisons."

Lastly, "That they are necessary in respect to the inhabitants already
residing in those places where they are proposed to be established, who
require some form of civil government."

"After what we have already stated with respect to the policy of
encouraging colonies in the interior country as a general principle, we
trust it will not be necessary to enter into an ample discussion of the
arguments brought to support the foregoing propositions.

"We admit as an undeniable principle of true policy, that with a view
to prevent manufactures, it is necessary and proper to open an extent
of territory for colonization proportioned to the increase of people,
as a large number of inhabitants, cooped up in narrow limits, without a
sufficiency of land for produce, would be compell'd to convert their
attention and industry to manufactures; but we submit whether the
encouragement given to the settlement of the colonies upon the sea
coast, and the effect which such encouragement has had, have not
already effectually provided for this object, as well as for increasing
the demand for, and consumption of British manufactures, an advantage
which, in our humble opinion, would not be promoted by these new
colonies, which being proposed to be established, at the distance of
_above fifteen hundred miles from the sea_, and in places which, upon
the fullest evidence, are found to be utterly inaccessible to shipping,
will, from their inability to find returns wherewith to pay for the
manufactures of Great Britain, be probably led to manufacture for
themselves; a consequence which experience shews has constantly
attended in greater or lesser degree every inland settlement, and
therefore ought, in our humble opinion, to be carefully guarded
against, by _encouraging_ the settlement of that extensive tract of sea
coast hitherto unoccupied; _which, together with the liberty that the
inhabitants of the middle colonies will have_ (in consequence _of the
proposed boundary line with the Indians_) of _gradually extending
themselves backwards_, will more effectually and beneficially answer
the object of encouraging population and consumption, than the erection
of new governments; such gradual extension might through the medium of
a continued population, upon even the same extent of territory,
preserve a communication of mutual commercial benefits between its
extremest parts and Great Britain, _impossible_ to _exist in colonies
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