they have not that Credit in their Manufactures that this Province has Besides our Trade by Sea this Province has a very considerable inland Trade with the Indians for Beaver other Furs & Peltry & with the French of Canada for Beaver, all which are purchased with

English Commodity except a small quantity of Rum.

As this Trade is very profitable to England,

so this province has a more considerable share in it than any other in His Matys Dominions & is the

only Province that can Rival & I beleive out do the French, being the most advantagiously situated for this Trade of any part of America

This Government (since the arrival of the present Governor) considering that the French of Canada buy yearly of the people of this Province great quantitys of English Goods in English Cloaths fit for

the Indians use, & being convinced that the French cannot without great difficulty and expence

import these goods directly from Europe & that without them they cannot carry out their trade with the Indians exclusive of the English: did by a severe Law prohibit the selling of any Indian Goods to the French

At the same time considerable encouragement was given to a number of young men

to go into the Indian Country as far as the Pass between the great Lakes at the Falls of Iagara, to

learn the language of these Indians, and to renew the Trade with the far Indians which our Traders

have disused ever since the beginning of the Wars with France This they could not be persuaded to undertake of themselves having of late fallen into the more safe and less toilsome Trade with the