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Page 60 - ... with all the other colonies of France, though it no doubt retarded, had not been able to stop its progress altogether. The course of its prosperity returned as soon as it was relieved from that oppression. It is now the most important of the sugar colonies of the West Indies, and its produce is said to be greater than that of all the English sugar colonies put together.
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| Title | A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, Volume 2 A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas |
| Author | Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, 1890 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | May 26, 2006 |
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