Canada: Or, A View of the Importance of the British American Colonies

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J. M. Richardson, 1814 - Canada - 355 pages
 

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Page 332 - An Account of the Number of Vessels, with the Amount of their Tonnage, and the Number of...
Page 250 - There cannot, in the first place, be imagined a district more favourable to settlement. In addition to a genial climate and soil, there are the utmost facilities of communication and commerce. The whole district is the sloping side of a valley, through which run deep and navigable rivers, which begin their course in the remotest borders, and which all terminate in the central stream. This stream, one of the longest and widest in the world, is remarkably distinguished by its depth, and freedom from...
Page 255 - ... cotton, and their success supplies us with a new example, and a powerful inducement to appropriate, in part, the territory of the Mississippi to the same culture. " But now come the fearful and scrupulous head to dash these charming prospects. Obstacles to these great achievements, multiply in his timorous fancy. He expatiates on the length of the way; the insalubrity of uncultivated lands; of a climate to which the constitution and habits of the colonists are uncongenial ; of a soil, part of...
Page 109 - ... the said United States of America, may (until further order) be imported directly from thence into any of the ports of this kingdom, either in British or American ships, by British subjects, or by any of the people inhabiting in and belonging to the said United States, or any of them, and...
Page 257 - England than would follow from her acquisition of a navy, and the extension of her trade. Whatever gives colonies to France, supplies her with ships and sailors ; manufactures and husbandmen. Victories by land can only give her mutinous subjects ; who, instead of augmenting the national force, by their riches or numbers, contribute only to disperse and enfeeble that force ; but the growth of colonies supplies her with zealous citizens, and the increase of real wealth and effective numbers is the...
Page xxxi - ... its ratification by Congress, in the first moment in which it shall become known to me, and concur in the measures necessary for exchanging the ratifications. I shall take the greatest care to forward the letter you are pleased to enclose for Baltimore, according to its address. I have the honor to be, with sentiments of the greatest respect and esteem, Sir, your most obedient, and most humble servant. TO MR. CARMICHAEL. PARIS, October 18, 1785. DEAR...
Page 258 - ... effective numbers, is the certain consequence." " What would Germany, Italy, Spain, and France, combining their strength, do against England ? They might assemble in millions on the shores of the Channel, but there would be the limits of their enmity. Without ships to carry them over, without experienced mariners to navigate these ships, Britain would only deride the pompous preparation.
Page 251 - ... whose trade is war and pillage. Does this river bestow riches worthy of the greatest efforts of the nation to gain them, and shall the greater Nile of the western hemisphere be neglected? A Nile whose inundations diffuse the fertility of Egypt twenty leagues from its shores, which occupies a valley wider than from the Duna to the Rhine, which flows among the most beautiful dales, and under the benignest seasons, and which is skirted by a civilized and kindred nation on...
Page 249 - Review. nation (says M. Talleyrand, referring to Louisiana) had the vain honour of conferring a name on a portion of the globe, not exceeded by any other portion of it, in all the advantages of the climate and soil. Before the war of 1757, it was an immense valley, watered by a deep and beneficent river. This river first acquires importance in the latitude of 45, north. It flows in a devious course about two thousand miles, and enters the bay of Mexico, by many mouths, in latitude 29. In these Latitudes...
Page 261 - ... we extort the consent of the American States? How shall we prevail on them to alienate the most valuable portion of their territory ; to admit into their vitals a formidable and active people, whose interests are incompatible, in every point, with their own; whose enterprises will inevitably interfere and jar with theirs; whose neighbourhood will cramp all their movements ; circumscribe their future progress to narrow and ignominious bounds ; and make incessant inroads on their harmony and independence...

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