tia Auguft 1749. 



the taking of feals j and that by this means 

 Canada would become a fchool for training 

 up feamen. They further mentioned the 

 feveral forts of furrs, the converfion of the 

 Indians, the (hip-building, and the various 

 ufes of the extenfive woods. And laftly 

 that it would be a confiderable advantage 

 to France, even though they fhould reap 

 no other benefit, to hinder by this means 

 the progrefs of the Englijh in America^ and 

 of their encreafing power, which would 

 otherwife become infupportable to Frances 

 not to mention feveral other reafons. Time 

 has fhewn that thefe reafons were the refult 

 of mature judgment, and that they laid the 

 foundation to the rife of France. It were to be 

 wiihed that we had been of the fame opinion 

 inSiveden, at a time when we were actually 

 in poffeflion of New Sweden > 'the fineft and 

 befl province in all North America, or when 

 xve were yet in a condition to get the pof- 

 ieflion of it. Wifdom and forefight does 

 not only look upon the prefent times, but 

 even extends its views to futurity. 



In the year 1663 at the beginning of 

 February, the great earthquake was felt in 

 Quebec and a great part of Canada, and there 

 are flill fome veftiges of its efte&s at that 

 time -, however, no lives were loft. 



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