Note 79 — LIVRE VII.
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Note 79:
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«I will do my endeavours écrit M. Burnet au Bureau du commerce, in the spring without committing hostility, to get our Indians to demolish it. This place is of great consequence for two reasons, 1st. because it keeps the communication between Canada and Mississipi by the river Ohio open, which else our Indians would be able to intercept at pleasure, and 2d. if it should be made a fort with soldiers enough in it, it will keep our Indians from going over the narrow part of the lake Ontario by this only pass of the Indians without leave of the French, so that if it were demolished the far Indians would depend on us»
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