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

of the Ice which closes the River St. Lawrence, itself long and perilous. It

may be objected to this plan, that the Colony of Orange and Manathe may remain faithful to it and draw down an open

the King of England, and in this case it would not be apropos to attack

war with that English Colony to the prejudice of the Treaty of Neutrality concluded between the two nations. It may be answered to this, that the colony of Manathe and Orange, being the same as that formerly called New Netherland which the English took from the Dutch, and the greater part of which is still of this latter nation and all Protestants, it is not to be doubted but that they would receive the orders of the Prince of Orange and even force their Governor, did he not consent, to acknowledge him, and therefore we must look on as certain a war between that Colony and us, and not give it the time to push its intrigues with the Savages to ruin us by means of them, if we do not anticipate them. And in case that, contrary to all appearances, they remain faithful to the King of England during the general rebellion of the English, we might, if H.