Account of the French Settlements in North-America, continued

The English considered the possession as an equivalent for all that the French had loft by the treaty of Utrecht, and not being entirely reconciled to them, strongly opposed their being allowed to people and fortify it. The French to recover their former losses people and fortify Cape-Breton; and establish considerable fisheries. France first turned Charles V. views towards North-America, to which was invited by the similarity of foil and climate, and the island of Cape-Breton became immediately the object of her attention. The distance was considerable from the further French settlements in Canada to the banks of the river that was to be the object of inquiry. The French, who annually purchase from so reign powers seventeen millions weight of tobacco, would easily have been supplied with that commodity from Louisiana. The French, fettled in those parts, had carried their ambitious views towards the north, where the finest furs were to be had, and in the greatest plenty.

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