lid Augiijl 1749. 



the taking of feals , 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 Oiip-building, and the various 

 ufes of the extenfive v/oods. And laflly 

 that it would be a confiderable advantage 

 to France, even though they fliould reap 

 no other benefit, to hinder by this means 

 the prog re fs of the EngliJJj in America^ and 

 of their encreafing power, which would 

 otherwife become infupportable to France i 

 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 therifecf JPr/???<:^. It were to be 

 wiihed that we had been of the fame opinion 

 mSivedcn, at a time when w.e wereadually 

 in poffcffion of Ne%v Sweden, the finefl and 

 beii province in all North America, or when 

 we were yet in a condition to get the pof- 

 ieffion 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 

 ^ebec and a great part o^ Canada, and there 

 are ftill fome veftiges of its effeds at that 

 time; however, no lives v/ere lofL 



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