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suffer them to possess it, these inconveniences and 
maschiefs will probably follow: 
1. Our people, being confined to the country be- 
tween 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 be- 
come 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 mar- 
riages, 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 be- 
tween the Ohio and Lake Erie, in the places here- 
after 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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