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Excerpt from An Account of the European Settlements in America, Vol. 2 of 2: Containing an Accurate Description of Their Extent, Climate, Productions, Trade, Genius, and Dispositions of Their Inhabitants; The Interests of the Several Powers of Europe With Respect to Those Settlements
They assaulted these new colonies and drove them out of the island. The English colony soon returned, and possessed themselves of the largest and most fertile quarter before the French could collect themselves; who, finding the Eng lish already occupied the best part, left a small c'olony on the other. But their chief, and the most adventurous of 'their inhabitants, went in search of a new settlement; when, after various fortune, and after combating the difficulties which an uncultivated country and some indiscretions of their own had caused them, they made a con siderable settlement in the islands of Martinico and Guadaloupe.
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