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Show [A2 B.T.] 77M Colonies ufeful to G. Britain. 376 CANADA PAMPHLET. miles from the fea as ditiicult and expenfive, as the like didance into Germany :---whereas in the lattcr, the natural dillances are frequently doubled by political obf‘trutz‘rions ; I mean the intermixed territories and clalhing interel'ts of princes $.----But when we confider that the inland parts ofAmeriea are penetrated by great navigable rivers; that there are a number ol‘great lakes, communicating with each other, with thofe rivers, and with the lea, very linall portages here and there excepted ‘4‘ ; Hwi‘ WM. ‘ a lllw Mr?" that the tea coafis (i‘r‘onc may be allowed the expretlion) ot‘thoi‘e lakes only, amount at leaft to 2700 miles, exclufive of the rivers running into v. _ltk\__., r «r l i il l‘ l (C them (many of which are navigable to a great extent for boats and canoes, through vaf't tracts of country); how little likely is it that the expence on the carriage of our goods into thofe countries {hould prevent the ufe of them.---If the poor I72dz'zmr in thofe remote partsare now able to pay for 177 font furnifhed with by theFrench andEnglifh tra- ders, (thoughlndians have nothing butwhat they get by hunting, and the goods are loaded with all the iinpolitions fraud and knavery can contrive to inhance their value;) will not z'm/zflrz‘am Eng/2]]; far/mm, hereafter fettled in thofe countries, be much better able to pay for what thall be brought them in the way of fair commerce? If it is alked, Ill/bat can fuch farmers raife, wherewith to pay for the manufaé'tures they may want from us ? I anfwer, that the inland parts of America in queftion are well known to be fitted for the production of hemp, flax, potafh, and above all, iilk; the fouthern parts may produce olive-oil, railins, currants, indigo, and cochineal. Not to mention horles and black cattle, which may eafily be driven to the maritime markets, and at the fame time aflilt in conveying other fent commodities.-That the commodities firft men- tioned, may eafily, by water or land-carriage, be brought to the {ca-ports from interior America, Will not feem incredible; when we reflect, that 1; [Sir C. Whitworth has the following affertion. " Each Rate in fouthern parts ofRuflia to Wologda, and down the linen, woollen and iron wares they are at pre- bump formerly catne from the Ukraine and molt " Germany is jealous of its neighbours; and hence, rather than fat- " cilitate the export or tranfit of its neighbours products or manu" factories, they have all recourfe to lit-angers." State of Trade, p. xxiv. E] * From New Yorkinto lake Ontario, the land-carriage of the feveral portages altogether, amounts to but about 27 miles. From lake Ontario into lake Erie, the land-carriage at Niagara is but about 12 miles. All the lakes above Niagara communicate by navigable (traits, f0 that no land-carriage is neceflary, to go out of one into another. From Prefqu'ifle on lake Erie, there are but 1; miles land»carriage, and that a good waggon-road, to Beef River, the Dwina toArchangel; and thence by a perilous navigation round the North Cape to England and other parts of Europe. ltnow comes from the [The rivers and lakes of Canada perhaps render acceflible (in land and water) a tract of almol't 900,000 {quartz miles; the river Millimppi, another tract of nearly 600,000 iquare miles; the {et- tled parts of the Englilh colonies l'carcely extend over a tract of 300,000 {quare miles. E] a branch of the Ohio; which brings you into a navigation of many thoufand miles inland, if you take together the Ohio, the Milliflippi, and all the great rivers and branches that run into them. [Th e A a fame |