a company of people transplanted into a remote province, in order to cultivate and inhabit it.

Colonies are of three sorts: the first are those that serve to ease and discharge the inhabitants of a country, where the people are become too numerous; the second are those established by victorious princes in the middle of vanquished nations, to keep them in awe and obedience; and the third sort are those established for the promotion of trade, called colonies of commerce; such are those established by European nations in several parts of Asia, Africa, and America.