Note 34 — Chapter III · The French War.
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“As late as 1754 all the French colonies, from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico, did not contain more than a hundred thousand white inhabitants, while the inhabitants of the English colonies were then estimated at twelve hundred thousand white and two hundred and fifty thousand blacks.”—History of the United States of America, by Harvey Prindle Peet, LL.D., p. 156.