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nlso on the coasts, Lays, nml creeks of all other of Ills I'.ritannic 

 ]Nrajesty's doininioiis in vVnierica; ami thai the American li^^h- 

 ennen HJiail have liberty to dry ami cure tish in r>..y of the nn- 

 tettled bays, harbors, and creeks of Nova Scotia, ]\Iagdalen U\- 

 ands, and Labrador, soloni^ as the same shall remain unsettled; 

 bnt so soon as the same or cither of them shall be settled, it 

 hhall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure lish at 

 tljc.said settlement, M'ithout a previous agreement for that i»ur- 

 l>ose M-ith the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the 

 ground." * 



Notwithstanding tlie absolute terms of tliis trcaty 

 in regard to tlie (jiiestion of jieace, there survived on 

 both sides so niucli of irritation, and so many points 

 of mutual relation remained uncertain, that the treaty 

 ■was in some respects little more than a truce. AVe 

 had special cause to complain of the persistent occu- 

 pation of northwestern posts by Great Britain, and its 

 elYect on^the Indians within our lines. On the other 

 hand, to say nothing of minor matters, when the wars 

 of the French Kevolution commenced, and the French 

 Kepublic undertook to use our ports as the ])ase of 

 naval operations against Great Britain, the latter 

 Power took umbrage of course ; and it was only the 

 firm attachment of President Washington to peace, 

 which prevented these difficulties from fatally em- 

 broilini^ the two countries, and which led to the con- 

 elusion of the Treaty of December 10, 1704, as the 

 similar spirit of President Grant led to the conclusion 

 of the Treaty of Washington. 



During the next ten years, the United States labor- 

 ed to maintain their neutrality in the presence of the 

 universal war by land and sea Avhich i-aged between 

 the great European Powers. Both France and En- 



