to North America. z6$ 



to go thither. Some have rcply'd upon this Head, / 

 that the Remedy had been worfe than the Difeafe; 

 in regard that fome time or other they would not 

 have faii'd to expel the Catholicks by the affiftance 

 of the English : But I reprefented to 'em, that the 

 Greeks and Armenians, who are fubjed to the Grand 

 Seignior , and at the fame time are of a Nation 

 and Religion that's different from that of the Turks ; 

 I reprefented, I fay, that thefe diffenting Subje&s 

 did fcarce ever implore the aid of foreign Powers, 

 in order to rebel and {hake off the Yoak. la 

 fine, we have more reafon to believe, that if the 

 Huguenots had been tranfported to Canada, they had 

 never departed from the fealty they ow'd to their 

 natural Soveraign. But, let that be as it will ; I do 

 but fpeak as that King of Arragon did, who boat- 

 ed, that if God had daign'd to confult him, he 

 could have Riven him feafonable advice with refe- 

 rence to the lymmetry and the courfes of the Stars : 

 For in like manner, I do affirm, that if the Coun- 

 cil of State had followed my Scheme, in the fpace 

 of thirty or forty years, New-France would have be- 

 come a finer and more fiourifhing Kingdom, than 

 feveral others in Europe. 



A Difcourfe of the Intereft of thz French, and of thz 

 Engiifh, in Nortb^Atnzrica. 



Since New-France and New-England fubfift only 

 upon the Cod-Fifhery, and the Furr trade, tis* 

 the intereft of thefe two Colonies to inlarge the 

 number of the Ships imploy'd in the Fifhery, and 

 to incourage the Savages to hunt and (hoot Bea- 

 vers, by furnifhing them with what Arms and Am- 

 ntunkiori cheyhave occafion for. 'Tis well known, 

 that there's a great confumption of Codfifh in the 



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