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A paradox. Prooving, that the inhabitants of the isle called Madagascar, or St. Laurence, (in temporall things) are the happiest people in the world. Whereunto is prefixed a ... description of that island: the ... climate, and condition of the inhabitants, and their speciall affection to the English ... With most probable arguments of a hopefull and fit plantation of a colony there, in respect of the fruitfulnesse of the soyle, the benignity of the ayre, and the relieving of our English ships, both to and from the East Indies (1640)

Hamond, Walter, active 1643 · London : N. Butter · leaf 27

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