. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. dvocate of the new measures, which were not un-like in their purpose the project of barrier colonies, to whichhe had committed himself at the time of the Albany congressin 1754. The expectation at first was to buy needed territoryfrom the French settlers, and Franklin marked out for LordShelburne the limits that were proposed on the small-scale mapwhich makes a part of Evans and PownaUs larger sheet. Thisplan of compensation was soon aband
. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. dvocate of the new measures, which were not un-like in their purpose the project of barrier colonies, to whichhe had committed himself at the time of the Albany congressin 1754. The expectation at first was to buy needed territoryfrom the French settlers, and Franklin marked out for LordShelburne the limits that were proposed on the small-scale mapwhich makes a part of Evans and PownaUs larger sheet. Thisplan of compensation was soon abandoned, and the governmentwas petitioned for a grant. General Gage and a body of Phila-delphia merchants joined the others in this new aim was to acquire a tract of 63,000,000 acres stretchingfrom Lake Erie to the Mississippi, and bounded in one directionby the Fox and Wisconsin rivers and on the other by the Ohio,Wabash, and Miami (Maumee). Against the eastern boundsof the proposed colony, and along the Wabash and Miami, laya French population of some five or six hundred, which wovegrouped at Vincennes, and at Forts Ouiatanon and A CORNER MAP IN EVANS AND FOWNALLS LARGE MAP. 40 LOUISIANA, FLORIDA, AND THE ILLINOIS COUNTRY. These settlers were in the main agricultural, and gave muchof their labor to the vine : while they varied life with an occa-sional hunting season. They had pined under the change of flagmuch less than the French nearer the Mississippi, and had infact established family ties with the neighboring Indians, whichserved to bind them to the soil, and there was indeed much intheir country to attract. Wharton had said of it in 1770 :••The Wabash is a beautiful river, with high and uprightbanks, less subject to overflow than any other river (the Ohioexcepted) in this part of America. It is navigable to Ouiata-non, 412 miles, in the spring, summer, and autumn, with bat-toes drawing: about 3 feet of water. Boats go 197 miles furtherto the Miami
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