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PART II.
��ARGUMENT.
��The Cane. — Africa. — The Negro.— The Slave-carrying Trade. —The Means and Resources of the Slave Trade.— The Portu- guese. — Dutch, — Danes, — French, — and English in America-
Among the bowers of paradise, that graced Those islands of the world-dividing waste, Where towering cocoas waved their graceful locks, And vines luxuriant cluster'd round the rocks ; Where orange-groves perfumed the circling air. With verdure, flowers, and fruit for ever fair ; Gay mirtle-foUage track'd the winding rills, And cedar forests slumber'd on the hills ;
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