may be necessary to secure this important conquest. It would render H. M. absolute Master of the whole of Iroquois who derive from this Colony all the arms and ammunition with which they make war on us. This will afford the means to disarm them whenever considered necessary, and thereby impose on them such laws as H. M. may please; the town of Boston, the capital of New England being too far from them to afford any aid.
INVASION OF NEW-YORK AND BURNING OF SCHENECTADY.
Having mastered the Iroquois we shall have equal control of all the other Savages who will come without hesitation and bring us all their peltries. This will cause the trade of our Colony will considerably augment H. M.'s revenues and eventually diminish the expences to flourish ;
he is obliged to incur for the preservation of Canada. It will firmly establish the Christian Religion as well
among the Iroquois as among
the other
Savages to whom we shall be able to speak as Masters when they are encircled on the side of Canada as well as of New York.
It will secure and facilitate the Cod fishery
Coasts of la Cadie and on the Great Bank.
which is carried on along our
It will give H. M. one of the finest harbours in America
which can be entered during almost alt seasons of the year in less than one month of very easy navigation ; whilst that from France to Quebec cannot be prosecuted except in summer on account