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accustomed to the use of birch canoes, were of more value and service 
than five times their number of raw men newly come from Europe. 
Three months later Colonel Vetch wrote another letter to the 
Lords of Trade concerning the state of affairs in Nova Scotia, in which 
he observes:— 
“As to the french Inhabitants In that Country, by what I can 
learn there is not many of them removed, notwithstanding the dis- 
couragements they mett withal some time ago. They will no doubt 
gladly remain upon their plantations (some of which are considerable) 
providing they may be protected and encouraged by the Crown, and 
as no country is of value without Inhabitants, so the removal of them 
and their cattle to Cape Brittoun would be a great addition to that 
new colony, so it would wholly ruine Nova Scotia unless supplyed with 
a Brittish Colony, which could not be done in severall years, so that 
the french Inhabitants with their stocks of catle remaining there is 
verry much for the advantage of the Crown, provided that it shall be 
found practicable to keep them faithfull to their aledgence in case of 
a war. with france, which will be hard to doe while the priests remain 
amongst them to whose dictates they are absolutely devoted.’’’ 
Opinions of early English Governors respecting the Acadians. 
Lieut. Governor Caulfield succeeded Vetch in the administration 
and was at first favourably impressed with the attitude of the Acadians, 
but at the close of his term of office thought differently, for he writes :— 
“My sentiment of them is very much altered from my former one and 
believe that there is but little dependence on their friendship, tho’, 
at the same time, I am persuaded it will be with reluctancy they leave 
the Country, most of those who had formerly gone being again returned; 
but for the better improvement of the country English Inhabitants 
are absolutely necessary.” 
Governor Philipps had a still more unfavourable opinion of them, 
for he writes in 1719, that they were “growne so insolente as to say 
that they will neither sweare allegiance nor leave the Country.” He 
states further that at the time of the surrender of the province to the 
Crown of Great Britain “it was stipulated in their behalf to have their 
choice either to remain in the Province, if they would transfer their 
allegiance, or, in case of the alternative, to dispose of their estates and 
effects to the best advantage; to determine which one year’s time was 
allowed them; but at the expiration thereof, finding their new masters 
in no condition to oblige them to the obsevance of the one or the other, 
they have remained upon their possessions in contempt of the 

! Transactions Royal Society of Canada for 1888, part:I, p. 56. 
