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«There is another consideration; the Canadians will increase much in population, and in a few years, more lands will be wanted for them, and it seems good policy that the frontiers should be settled by people professing different religions, speaking a different language, and accustomed to other laws and government from those of our restless and enterprizing neighbours of New-England.
Loyalists and Americans settled near one another could not agree at least for some years, and the smallest triffle might be productive of outrages, from which great mutual mischief would ensue in spite of ail efforts on the part of the respective governments to prevent it; hence, my Lord, appears the great advantage which the land between the River St.-Lawrence and the Ottawa River towards Cataraqui possesses for making udefull and happy settlements for the Loyalists, and of which I have given in former letters an ample description.»
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