1741; or in _Collections of the Georgia Historical Society_, Vol.

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25, &c.] It is remarked by Mr.Burke, that "These regulations, though well intended, and indeed meant to bring about very excellent purposes, yet might at first, as it did afterwards, appear, that they were made without sufficiently consulting the nature of the country, or the disposition of the people which they regarded."[1] [Footnote 1: _European Settlements in America_, Vol.II.p.

266.] Governor Belcher, of Massachusetts, in a letter to Lord Egmont, observes, "I have read Mr.Oglethorpe's state of the new colony of Georgia once and again; and by its harbors, rivers, soil and productions, do not doubt that it must in time make a fine addition to the British Empire in America; and I still insist upon it that the prohibitory regulations of the Trustees are essential to its healthy and prosperous condition; and the alteration of the Constitution to the advantage of females must give great encouragement to first undertakers or settlers, as your Lordship observes."[1] [Footnote 1: Letter Book, in the archives of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol.

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