Essays of Benjamin Franklin

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Author:: Franklin, Benjamin http://d-nb.info/gnd/118534912

Title:: Essays of Benjamin Franklin

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: G. P. Putnam's Sons

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: xi, 273 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: II. The interest of Great Britain considered, with regard to her colonies and the acquisitions of Canada and Guadaloupe

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42 Benjamin Franklin [1760 intermixed territories and clashing interests of princes.’ But when we consider that the inland parts of America are penetrated by great navigable rivers, and there are a number of great lakes, communicat- ing with each other, with those rivers, and with the sea, very small portages here and there excepted *; that the sea-coasts (if one may be allowed the ex- pression) of those lakes only amount at least to two thousand seven hundred miles, exclusive of the rivers running into them, many of which are navi- gable to a great extent for boats and canoes, through vast tracts of country;—how little likely is it that the expense on the carriage of our goods into those countries should prevent the use of them. If the poor Indians in those remote parts are now able to pay for the linen, woollen, and iron wares they are at present furnished with by the French and English traders, though Indians have nothing but what they get by hunting, and the goods are loaded with all the impositions fraud and knavery can contrive to 1 This was before the consolidation of Europe by the Bonapartes, and when, as Sir C. Whitworth asserts in his State of Trade: ‘Each state in Germany is jealous of its neighbours; and hence, rather than facilitate the export or transmit of its neighbour’s products or manu- factures, they have all recourse to strangers.” 2 From New York into Lake Ontario, the land-carriage of the several portages altogether amounts to but about twenty-seven miles. From Lake Ontario into Lake Erie, the land-carriage at Niagara is bub about twelve miles. All the lakes above Niagara communicate by navigable straits, so that no land-carriage is necessary to go out of one into another. From Presqu’ Isle on Lake Erie there are but fifteen miles land-carriage, and that a good wagon-road, to Beef River, a branch of the Ohio, which brings you into a navigation of many thou- sand miles inland, if you take together the Ohio, the Mississippi, and all the great rivers and branches that run into them.—F.

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