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aboriginal problem with a success that no nation of the Old 

 or New World has ever achieved, whitened every sea with 

 tlie sails of Canadian ships, linked Australia, the Indies and 

 the Empires of the East with our western harbors, as before 

 we had linked our eastern seaboard cities with western Europe^ 

 created a trade almost double, in proportion to population, of 

 that of the United States, touched only as yet the southern 

 border of our vast arable and pastoral reserve, content to move 

 slowly while we are perfecting the union of Provinces to each 

 other, and our joint position in the Empire, in a way and with 

 a success that will enable the distinguished nobleman whom 

 the Queen has now chosen to represent her in her Canadian 

 Dominion to bear to her at the close of his term of office an 

 assurance similar to that given by a distinguished predeces- 

 sor. Lord Dufferin, who said, on leaving us: 



" When I resign the temporary Vice-royalty with which I 

 have been invested, into the hands of my Sovereign, I shall be 

 able to assure her that not a leaf has fallen from her maple 

 chaplet, that the lustre of no jewel in her trans-atlantic dia- 

 dem has been dimmed." 



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