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afraid to blame thofe who were moH: guilty in this Affair. If 

 is thus (fays he) that at all Times we , make much ado about 

 nothing, that v/e purfue new Enterprizes with great Heat, and 

 that we project fine Beginnings, and then quit every Thing. 

 In Reality, for fuch Undertakings there mufi: be a Subfiftence 

 and Support ; but we muft aifo liivc Men of Refolution, who 

 will not foon be difheartened, and have this Point of Honour 

 in View, ViBory or Deaths that Death being great and glorious 

 which happens in executing a great Defign ; fuch as laying 

 the Foundation of a New Kingdom, and eftablilhing the 

 Chrijiian Faith among People where GOD is not known/' 

 I come now to Trade.— — The Trade of Canada\).2u^ been a 

 long Time folely in the Fifhery and Skins. The Cod Filhery 

 was carried on upon the Great Batik, and upon the Coafts of 

 Newfoundland^ a long Time before they difcovered the River 

 of Si. Laurence : They bethought themfelves too late, of 

 making a Settlement upon the Ifland ; and we had fufFered 

 the Englijh to be before-hand with us. At length we took Pof- 

 felTion of the Port and Bay of Placentia. The Militia of Ca-- 

 nada have performed here many warlike Exploits, equal to thofe 

 of the boldeil Buccaneers of St. Domingo, They have often de- 

 ftroyed the Inhabitants, and ruined the Trade of the Englijh in 

 this Illand : But they who fufFered their ftrongell Places to be 

 eallly taken from them, knew their Enemy too well to be dif- 

 heartened. Accuftomed to fee the Canadian Fire break out 

 amidft the Northern Ice, and die away of itfelf in the Midft of 

 what ought to have given it more Power, they behaved them- 

 felves at the Approach of our Heroes like a fkilful Pilot upon 

 the Approach of a Storn^i. They prudently yielded to the 

 Tempeft, and afterwards repaired without any Hindrance the 

 Damage which had been done to their Pofts ; and by this Con- 

 dud tho' they were always beat in Newfoundland^ either when they 

 attacked or defended themfelves, they have always carried on a 

 much greater Trade than their Conquerors, and have at laft re-^ 

 maincd the fole Mafters and quiet PofTefTors of this Ifland. We 

 have behaved flill worfe in Acadia, This great and rich Province 

 has been a long Time divided amongfl divers private Perfons, 

 none of which are grown rich, whilft the Englijh have made an 

 immenfe Profit of the Fifhery upon the Coafls, 



The Settlements which thefe Proprietors made here, not being 

 upon a folid Foundation, and wanting themfelves Judgment, and 

 ruining one another, they left the Country in much the fame 

 Condition they found it ; and with fuch an ill Name, that it 

 îiever recovered till the Moment we loft it. But our Enemies have 

 made us know the Value of it» 



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