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Show :06 [A: B.T.] ALBA-NY PAPERS. e when fome of them are reduced to mor convenient dimenfions. te ~Purehafies from the Indians made by priva inconperfons, have been attended with many fered, inter ently frequ have veniences. They and occafioned unCertainty of titles, many difered putes and expenfive law-fuits,_ and hind Then ted. difpu -the fet'tlement of the land fo Oftbe Plan qunian. jot; 'Very little of the land in thofe grants is yet purchafed of the Indians. It is much cheaper to purchafe of them, than to take and maintain the pofl'eflion by force: for they are generally very reafonable in their de- mands for 1and*'; and the expence of guarding a large frontier againfl: their incurfions is vaftly great; becaufe all muf't be guarded and always the Indians have been cheated by fuch private ' therein under the faith of the faid treaty, was left without any ' ‘l g ove rnment ' 'fon bein g made for the a dminil'tr anon ‘ provri o f c1v1 ‘ therein :' i. e. a few Indian traders were a pretext for this ap- purchafes, and difcontent and wars have been propriation of a tract of country, which according to the minz'fler's Thefe would be prevented by eltimate, was more than 13 times larger than England and Walt; united, nearly 128 times larger than 7amaim, almofl: % part of public fair purchafes. . . Eurape, and confiderably more than 7‘; part of the whole ha- Several of the colony charters in America ex- tend their bounds to the South Sm, which may be perhaps three or four thoufand. miles in length to one or two hundred miles in breadth. 772: Palitiwl Sun/e} rfCreaz Brimin by Dr. Campfztlf, and in that ' of Yamaim by Mr. Lang.) ‘ Now all the inhabitants of the pro‘ Vince of 25425", fays this very act, amounted at the conquelt to above fixty-five thoufand [only,] profefling the religion of the church of Rome, and enjoying an eflablilhed form of conl‘titution and fyf'rem of laws.‘ E] "" [‘ Dr. Franklin, (fay; Mr. Kai/a the Swede.) and fevcral other of acres, ‘ rang/7's eltimation of it, five hundred and eleven millions .lbunAI-hn‘... It is fuppofed they mull: in time be reduced to dimenfions more convenient for the common purpofes of government 9". Very bitable earth, (comparing it with the feveral calculations in A... the confequence. ‘ (that is, more land than Spain, Italy, frame, and Germany put ‘ together, and molt of it good land) IS a meafure that would or a pot full of brandy, or the like, they could get a piece of ‘ ground, which at prefentwould be worth more than 290/. flerling. , in page zoo of his account of the "‘ [Mr. Baron M Prateedingr at @ebee, for obtaining an Ai'fimHy, has the following hint: ‘ The valt enlargement of the provmce [onyelzec] by adding ‘ to it a new territory that contains, according to _Lord Hill a- ‘ require an ample difcuflion.' That the reader may not fuf- peét that tin/2 dimeryionr were tangmient for uncommon .purpaflr of gentlemen, frequently [wid me, that a powerful Indian, who puf- felfed R/wa'z [flu/1d, had fold it to the Eng/7]]; for a pair of fpeétacles: it is large enough for :1 prince's domain, andmakes a pecuA liar government at prefent. This Indian knew [how] to fet a true value upon 21 pair of fpef‘tacles: for undoubtedly if thofe glafles were not f0 plentiful, and only :1 few of them could be found, they would, on account of their great ufe, bear the fame price ' with diamonds.' See Kit/m": 7312‘er im'a North America, Vol. I. . 386, 387. ‘ At the time when the Study firlt arrived, they bought land at a very inconliderable price. For a piece ofbaize, Ib. Vol. II. p. 118.~'l‘he truth is, that the Indians conlidcred their lands as mere Mating-manor-r, and not as farms. E] owmment, Ilhall quote the motives afligned upon this occafion the act regulating the government of. Qgchr. ‘ By the ar- ‘ rangements made by the royal proclamation, a very large extent ‘ of [outlying] country, within which there were fevcral colonies ‘ and fettlements of the fubjefis of Frmm, who claimed to Remain I ercul P- 2 guarded,‘ , |
