Excerpt from A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, Vol. 5: Translated From the FrenchA wiew of tbe qfié'c's, produced by t/oe conne¿ions of the Europeans will) tbe Americans, on tbe Religion, Government, Policy, war, Navy, Commerce, Agricnlz'nre, Mannfaélnres, Papa lation, Paolic Credit, Fine Art: and Belle: Letires, Polio/oplvy, and blow]: of Europe.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.