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Memorandum on the Settlement of
Mobile and the Mississippi
In: English Translation of Margry,
Vol. 4, pp. 650-657.
pp. 656, 657.
As to the boundaries of the Mississippi colony with respect to Canada, all the streams falling into the Mississippi, up to their sources, and the tribes upon them, should belong to the Mississippi, as may also the whole tribe of the Illinois, the Miamis at the fork of the Illinois River, or those at Wisconsin, the Pegoncoquias, the Maskoutens, the Kickapous, who number about 400 men, and the other tribes, which I do not know, on those rivers.
Those who should be under Canada are the Indians on the rivers falling towards Canada, such as the Miamis of Chicago, those on the R. Ahitipuat and those on the St. Joseph River; all these rivers fall into the Michigan. All the Indians on the rivers falling into the Bay des Puans should belong to Canada. The high land between the Mississippi and Lake Superior and Michigan ought (page 657) naturally to form the boundary between these two countries. On all the rivers which fall into the Mississippi there are mines of various metals. When that country is settled, will these gentlemen of Canada come and work them, a distance of six or seven hundred leagues from their settlements, in which a very large number of portages have to be made? If this country is granted to them, as they ask, can they expect to share the trade of the country with those who establish it, to whom it naturally belongs?
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