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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 97 (part 2)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Too many were interested in its gains to admit of such hostility, and, indeed, the large private interests concerned in it were mainly responsible for the extensive proportions to which it grew in the closing years of the seventeenth century. Ir was not confined to the ordinary forms of smuggling — mere surreptitious im-portations of taxable European goods. — but included relations of more