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Excerpt from The Modern Part of an Universal History, From the Earliest Account of Time, Vol. 40: Compiled From Original Writers
N the year 1668, fogreat was the attention of the court Wm? Of France to the profperity of Canada, that the affairs of ?at: qr that colony had a mall promiling afpeet. Gentlemen Canada: of ancient families and final] fortunes in Old France trauf ported themfelves to the New, where they had lands and lordlhips a?igned them and, with a very moderate {hare of' indufiry, they were 'foon enabled to live like men of quality. The foldiers of the regiment of Carr'gnart Saline: were now become planters and coloniiis, and every o?icer amongfi them was a great landholder a policy that cannot be fulfi cien'tly admired in the court of Praise, as every man thereby had an' interelt and a property in what he fought for. 'new troops were (cut over, which fiill added net only to the firength, but the tranquillity of the colony; and the habits of indufiry, application; and labour, became now to be fa?tionable. Happily for their neighbours, the fuhjeels of Great Britain, thofe habits were forced, and of no long continuance. The moment the French planter found means' to fublia: himfelf with a little outward thew and fplendour, all toil and application was laid afide; which always gave the Engli/b an important fuperiority in ithe folid poffeliions of life. The tranquillity, however, which the. Colony, enjoyed.
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