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plied fleet, and became stationed as Governor at Niagara, where 

 he found, as his predecessor in office a year or two, the Sieur De La 

 Motte, the companion of Father Hennipin. De La Salle in 1684 and 

 '87 is found cruising in the Bay of Mexico. It is quite clear, that 

 the efforts of the French were, as previously stated, chiefly made in 

 the portions of North and South America, apart from the Isle of 

 Newfoundland, which last-named was not, by them, at the first, con- 

 sidered as an appanage of France. Secure footing in Canada was 

 chiefly aimed at. 



In the work Book of Days it is stated : — 



".It is little known that it was mainly by the advice of Benjamin Franklin that the 

 English Government resolved to conquer Canada, and, for that purpose, sent out 

 Wolfe's Expedition." 



