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Show ,/ r34. ALBANY PAPERS continued. [Az B.T.] PL ANfir two Wag/fern C's/0min. finef'c in Nari/J America, for the extreme richnefs and fertility of the land; the healthy temperature of the air, and mildnefs of the climate; the plenty ‘ fla'enre or bunting-ground: if our Indians. This is a meafure that: ‘ will be effectual; and will not only in time pay its cxpence, ‘ but make as great returns as any ofour prefent_colonies do; will ‘ give a {irength and unity to our dominions in Non/J Amtrtfq; ‘ and ive us pefifian of the country, as well as fen/amen" m it. ‘ But a ove all this, the Rate and circnrnflances of our fettlements, ‘ render fuch .a meafure not only propenand eligible, but ab‘ folutely neceffary. The Enin/b fettlements, as they are at ‘ prefent circumflaneed, are abfolutely at a hand ; they are fettled ' up to the mountains; and in the mountains there 15 no where ‘ together land {ufficient for a fcttlement large enough to'fubfifl: ‘ by itfelf, and to defend itfelf, and preferve a communication ' with the prefent fettlements. ‘ If the Engli/l; would advance one {'tep further, or cover them' {elves where they are, it mull be at once, by one large ttep over 135 of hunting, filhing, and fowlin ; the Fad" trade with the Indians ; and thegv aft convelililiteiiigtf of inland navigation or water-carria ge lakes and great rivers, many hundred of by the league" around. i From thefe natural advanta es it mufl ' undo edly (perhaps in lefs than aiglother century) uh); come a populous and powerful dominion ; and a. grea t acceflion of power, either to England or France. The French are now makin 0 en 6 ments on thefe territOries, in defif ncfof0531:3232! rights; and, if we longer delay to fettl e that country, and {utter them to pollefs it,--thefe z'n- ‘ the mountains, with at numerous and military colony. Where ‘ fuch ihould be fettled, I do not take upon me to fay: at prefent conwmmce: and mflbzifr will probably foll ow: ‘ I {hall only point out the meafure and the nature of it, by inferting two fchemes, one of Mr. Fran/was, the other of your ‘ memorialill; and ifI might indulge myfelf with fcheming, I ‘ fliould imagine that two fuch were fufiicient, and only requifite ‘ and proper: one at the back of Virginia, filling up the vacant ' {pace between the five nations and fouthern confederacy, and. ‘ connecting, into one fyflem, our barrier; the other fomewherc ' in the Cohals or Connecticut river, or wherever belt adapted to ‘ cover the New England colonies. Thefe, with the little {ettle‘ ments mentioned above in the Indian countries, complete my 1. Our people,‘ being confined to the country between the {ea and the mountain s, cannot much ' idea of this branch.' See Governor Pownall'r Adminz'flratian of tbe'wfl'fl. Vol. H. p. 228-231, 5th Edition. reader mull carry along with him a dittinétion between the plans of Dr.FranUin and Governor Pa-wnall here referred to. The firfi, (which is before him) is particular, and propofes a plan for rum {ettlements in the unlocated lands to the weltward of Pen/j]- mania and the Virginian mountains, and is totally filent with re- fpeét to a fettlement in New England: the other treats of the mode of fettling new colonies in Nartbdmzrim in general, leaving the pre- cife fituation to be in fome meafure pointed out by the foregoing extraé‘t. {The copy from which this paper is printed, has appearances of ‘ being rather incorreétly taken from the original. 15.] f C more increafe in number; people proportion to their room and means Ofincreafing in fubfif'cence. (See the Obfervations on the Increafe of Mankind Etc. p. 1.) ' ' 2. The French will increafe much more , by that acquired room and plenty of fubfiften ce, and become a great people behind us. > 3. Many of our debtors, and loofe Eng fifh people, our German fervants, and flaves, will probably defert to them; and increafe their num - bers and firength, to the lefl'ening and weak ening ofours. 5.. They will cut us off from all commerceiand alhance With the weflem Indzam, to the grea t prejudice |
