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suffer them to possess it, these inconveniences and
maschiefs will probably follow:
1. Our people, being confined to the country between
 the sea and the mountains, cannot much more
increase in number, people increasing in proportion
to their room and means of subsistence.
2. The French will increase much more, by that
acquired room and plenty of subsistence, and become
 a great people behind us.
3. Many of our debtors and loose English people,
our German servants, and slaves, will probably
desert to them, and increase their numbers and
strength, to the lessening and weakening of ours.
4. They will cut us off from all commerce and
alliance with the western Indians, to the great
prejudice of Britain, by preventing the sale and
consumption of its manufactures.
5. They will both in time of peace and war (as
they have always done against New England) set
the Indians on to harass our frontiers, kill and scalp
our people, and drive in the advanced settlers; and
so, in preventing our obtaining more subsistence by
cultivating of new lands, they discourage our marriages,
 and keep our people from increasing; thus
(if the expression may be allowed) killing thousands
of our children before they are born.
If two strong colonies of English were settled between
 the Ohio and Lake Erie, in the places hereafter
 to be mentioned, these advantages might be
expected:
1. They would be a great security to the frontiers
of our other colonies, by preventing the incursions

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