The latter was a cause of mortality, which, it was evident, would cease with the importations.

This conclusion was confirmed in part by Dr.Anderson, who, in his testimony to the Assembly of Jamaica, affirmed, that there was a considerable increase on the properties of the island, and particularly in the parish in which he resided.
He would now proceed to establish his second proposition, That from henceforth a very considerable increase might be expected.

This he might support by a close reasoning upon the preceding facts.

But the testimony of his opponents furnished him with sufficient evidence.

He could show, that wherever the slaves were treated better than ordinary, there was uniformly an increase in their number.