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Nations, that is now in the hands of the English m 

 Ntw-Tork. This might be eafily put in execution, 

 provided the King would allow ten thoufand Crowns 

 a year, for that end. The method of effe&ing it 

 is this. In the firft place, the Barques that were for- 

 merly made ufe of about Fort Frontenac, muft be 

 rebuiltjin order to convey to the Rivers of the Tfonon- 

 touans and the Onontagues, fuch Commodities as arc 

 proper for'em, and to fell ? em for the prime coft 

 in France. Now this would put the King to the 

 charge of about ten choufand Crowns for fraight ; 

 and Ym peri waded, that upon that foot the Irocjuefe 

 would not be fach fools as to carry fo much as one 

 Beaver to the English Colonies, and that for four 

 Reafrns. The firft is, that, whereas they muft 

 tranfport em fixty or eighty Leagues upon their 

 b^cks toNew-Tork, they have not above feven or 

 eight Leagues travelling from their own Villages, 

 to the banks of the Lake of Frcntenac. For a fe- 

 cond reafon, 'tis manifeft that the English can't pof- 

 fibly let 'em have their Commodities fo cheap , 

 without being confiderable lofers, and that there- 

 upon every Merchant would drop that fort of Trade* 

 The third is drawn from the difficulty of having 

 Subfiftance upon the Road between the Iroquefe Vil- 

 lages and New-York ; for the Ircquefe go thither 

 in great Bodies, for fear of being furpris'd, and I 

 acquainted you before feveral times, that there's no 

 Venifon in that fide of the Country. The fourth 

 reafon is this. In marching fo far from their Villa- 

 ges, they expofe their Wives, their Children, and 

 their fuperannuated Men, for a prey to their Ene- 

 mies, who upon that occafion may either kill em, 

 or carry 'em off ; and of this we have two In (lan- 

 ces already. Over and above the cheapnefsof our 

 Commodities, 'twould likewife be requifite that we 

 made 'em Prefents every year, and at the fame 

 time intreated 'em not to difturb the repofe of our 



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