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Show ALBANY PAPERS continued. and rejudice of Britain, by preventing the fale a,» 136 d ‘ Eonfumption of its manufactures. I Wd an e peac _of t1me in both They will azné Eggl (as they have always done agairfifl: New ed fad ers, rontx our . fs fet the Indi' ans on to hara 1e, and drive In the a vane lmtl11gyni e iii'e g .enting our10bctla ;?n _ r in prev $35.02 , s, an new Pt ce b cultlvatmg of lle frgg; iihilag? our haarriages, and keep our peopl how 6 a be may n eflio expr the (if thus g; increafin ey ar t re befo killing thoufands of our children born. - _ - If two firong colonies 13f gin-gaffe wig: (Sitter: the Ohio and la 6 ft d: . . might'IPlie;xvfi7:uled be a great fecurity to the fronntiers. of our other colonies ; by preventing thfeC12 3‘o1 lndians French and h Frenc the of curfions nada on the back parts of Penfylscrlanlila,fM::yc:snoz_ d the Carolinas; an t e to ' .' ' , es would be much more eafily adbloni fillerElhfw defended, than thofe of the colonies laft men. tioned now can be, as will appear hereafter. .1 The dreaded junction of the French fett of; 2 137 part of Canada by failing over the lakes ; thereby confine the French within narr and ower limits. 4.. We {hould fecure the friendfhip and trade of the Miami: or Twigz‘wrer, (a nume rous peo- ple, confii'ting of many tribes, inhabiti ng the country, between the weft end of lake Erie, and the fouth end of lake Hurons, and the Ohio;) who are at prefent diffatisfied with the French, and fond of the Englifh, and would gladl y en- courage and proteét an infant Englifh fettleme nt in or near their country, as fome of their chiefs have declared to the writer of this memoir. Further, by means of the lakes, theOhio, and the Miffiffippi, our trade might be extended through tie, in 12:22:: to be mentioned,---thefe advantage: ' IA: B.T.] PLANfiI‘ two Wcflem (7010722143. a vaf't country, among many numerous and dif- tant nations, greatly to the benefit of Britain. 5. The fettlement of all the intermed iate lands, between the prefent frontiers of our co- lonies on one fide, and the lakes and Mifliflipp i on the other; would be facilitated and fpeed ily executed, to the great increafe of Eng/flair ", Eng/2]}; trade, and Eng/zfl power. The grants to molt of the colonies, are of long narrow flips of land, extending weft from the Atlantick to the South Sea. They are much merits in Canada, with thofe 'of Long/2am wou too long for their breadth; the extremes at too " d. be grefrindzfe of a war, it would ‘be eafy, from tinued under their prefent dimeniions. thofe new colonies, to annoy_' Loafing: hiyugiilelifi down the Ohio and Mlfiifiippt; and t e 0 ‘ 3 Part great a diltance; and therefore unfit to be con- Several of the old colonies may conveniently be limited wef'cward by the Allegeny or Apalachian mountains ; and new colonies formed weft of thofe mountains. T A fin" |