to North America. 27$ 



the Outaouas, for inftance, with the Harms ; the 

 Sakis with the V out eouai amis, alias Puants. if all thofe 

 Nations who are imbarqued in a Confederacy wirh ; 

 us, would but agree one wich another, and put up 

 their quarrels, they would give themfelves wholly 

 to the hunting of Beavers, which would tend to the 

 inlarging of our Commerce ; and befides, they 

 would be in a condition of making one joint Body, 

 when the Irotjuefe offer'd toattack either one or t'other, 



? Tis the intereft of the Englijh to perfwadethcfe 

 Nations, that the French have nothing lefs in view, 

 than to deftroy them as foon as they meet with an 

 opportunity ; that the growing populoufnefs of Ca- 

 nada, is a fufficient ground ot alarm ; that they 

 ought to avoid all Commerce with the French, for 

 fear of being betray'd in any way whatfoever; 

 that to hinder the repairing of Fort Frontenac, and 

 the rebuilding of Barques for that Lake, is to them 

 a thing of the laft Importance, by reafon that the 

 French might in four and twenty hours, make a Def* 

 cent from thence to their Vi!hges, and carry off 

 their ancient Men, their Women and their Chil- 

 dren, at a time when the Warriows might be in • 

 gag'd in)the hunting of Beavers; That they would 

 promote their own intereft by waging War with the 

 French from time to time, by ravaging the Seignories 

 and Settlements in the upper part of the Country, 

 in ortfer to oblige the Inhabitants to abdicate the 

 Colony, and to difcourage thofe who would other- 

 wife remove out of France, and fettle in Canada ; 

 and in fine, That in time of Peace 'twould be very 

 proper to flop the Coureurs de Boh at the Catara&s of 

 ths Out aouas River,and to feize the Arms and Ammu- 

 nition that they carry to the Savages upon the Lakes. 



Farther, if the Englifo would purfue their mea- 

 fures to the beft advantage^ they ought to ingage 

 the Tfonontouam or the Goyoguam to go and fettle 

 upon the Banks of the Lake Errie, near the Mouth 



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