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the island, however, still remains guarded, and 
possession will be kept of it, until the matter in 
rality of the French delegates being totally ignorant of the 
English language, which, as I have already mentioned, they 
have an unconquerable aversion against learning. 
Thirdly, 1 think the British dominions in North America 
will never be annexed to those of the States, because they 
are by nature formed for constituting a separate independant 
territory. ., . • 
At present the boundary line between the British domi¬ 
nions and the States runs along the river St. Croix, thence 
along the high lands bordering upon New England till it 
meets the forty-fifth parallel of north latitude, and afterwards 
along the said parallel until it strikes the River St. Lawrence, 
or Cataragui or Iroquois. Now the dominions south of the 
St. Lawrence are evidently not separated from the United 
States by any bold determinate boundary line 5 I therefore 
Suppose that they may, in some manner, be connected witli 
them 5 but the country to the northward, bounded on the 
north by Hudson’s Bay, on the east by the ocean, on the 
south and west by the St. Lawrence, and that vast chain of 
lakes which extends to the westward, is separated from the 
United States by one of the most remarkable boundary lines 
that is to be found on the face of the globe between any two 
countries on the same continent 5 and from being bounded 
in such a remarkable manner, and thus detached as it were 
by nature from the other parts of the continent, it appears to 
me that it is calculated for forming a distinct separate state, 
or distinct union of states, from the present American fe¬ 
deral State's * that is, supposing, with the revolutions of time, 
that this arm of the British empire should be some time or 
other lopped off. I confess it appears strange to me, that 
any person should suppose, after looking attentively over a 
map of North America, that the British dominions, so ex¬ 
tensive and so'unconnected with them, could ever become 
joined in a political union with the present federal states on 
