A, D, 1763. 377 



On an average of nine years experience, he eftimates the proceeds of 

 a bale of cloth, which cofts, with freight and duty in Ruflia, £106 : 14, 

 to be, when i-eturned in raw filk, £357 • ^3 ■ i> fubjed to duties and 

 charges amounting to ;{?g2 : 4 : 9, fo that there remains a net profit of 

 ^158 : 14:4. 



From all thefe confiderations he ftrongly recommended the revival 

 of the trade though Ruflia. 



Odober 7''' It being determined, after, mature deliberation, that 



the countries ceded to Great Britain by the treaty of peace fliould be 

 divided into four feparate governments called Quebec, East Florida, 

 West Florida, and Grenada, a proclamation was ifiued, wherein their 

 limits were afcertained, and encouragement was held our to fettlers. 



Quebec was bounded on the Labrador coafl by the River St. John on 

 the eafl, and by a line from the liead of that river through Lake St. 

 John to the fouth end of Lake Nipiflim, whence by a line crofling the 

 River St. Laurence, and then croiTmg Lake Champlain in the latitude 

 of 45 degrees, and running along the high lands which divide the rivers 

 running into the St. Laurence from thofe running into the ocean, and 

 along the north coafl of the Bay de Chaleurs to Cape Rofiers, whence 

 acrofs the Gulf of St. Laurence, by the weft end of the ifland of Anti- 

 cofli, to the aforefaid River St. John. 



East Florida was bounded on the weft by Apalachicola river, on 

 the north by a line from that part of the Apalachicola, where the rivers 

 Chatahouchee and Flint meet, to the fource of St. Mary's river, and by 

 that river to the fea, which forms the other boundaries of the province, 

 wherein are alio comprehended all iflands within fix leagues of the 

 coaft. 



West-Florida was bounded on the fouth by the Gulf of Mexico, on 

 the weft by Lake Pontchartrain, Lake Maurepas, and the River INhflifip- 

 pi, as far north as the latitude of 31 degrees, which parallel of latitude 

 forms its northern boundary, the eaftern one being the River Apalachi- 

 cola. All iflands within fix leagues of the coaft were alio annexed to 

 this province. 



The government of Grenada comprehended that ifland with tlie 

 Grenadines, the iflands of Dominica, St. Vincent, and Tobago *. 



For the extenfion of an open and free fifliery to all Britifli fubjeds, 

 the coaft of Labrador, from the River St. John to Hudfon's ftraits, to- 

 gether with Anticofti, Madclainc, and the olher iflands on that coaft, 



♦ iioiirablc Englifh merchants,' witli every privi- \_PI.'iHipi^t H'lft. of inLinA njvi^nlion, />. 26, ej. 



lege tlity toulj wirti for. 'TyS-J 



The iiiliiniJ navigation, from Pctcrfl'iirg to tlic * Dominica, St. Vincent, anJ Tob.igo, fince 



Cafpian fen, was fo mucli improved by the late tlic con(|ne(l of lliem liaJ been annexed to the 



cmprefs in the year 1780, that the Noyagc is now government of Barbados, 

 pcrfoniied in half the time it formerly required. 



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