The French pretending to have first disco∣vered the mouths of the Missisippi, claimed the whole adjacent country, towards New Mexico on the east, quite to the Apalachian or Alleganey mountains on the west. Now began to shoot forth the seeds of another dispute, which had long lain unobserved, but which proved alto∣gether as thorny and intricate as that concerning the limits of Acadia. Views, a company of merchants and planters, obtained a charter for a considerable tract of land near the river Ohio, on the western side of the Alleganey mountains, but within the province of Virginia and the adventurers be∣gan to settle pursuant to the terms of their patent. It was judged, that as the first settlers on the coast, we had a good right to the inland country and, if so, to the navigation of the Missisippi, which opened another door to the ocean. These advantages, joined to those of the Indian trade, appeared to compensate for its remoteness from the sea. Here they found themselves in a de∣lightful climate, in a soil abundantly fruitful, and watered with many fair and navigable rivers. Whilst agriculture and the maritime commerce flou∣rished on their coasts, the Indian trade drew several of our wandering dealers far into the inland country, and beyond the great mountains. During this interval, our colonies on the con∣tinent of North Amerca, extended themselves on every side. After the accession of the present Royal Family, a French connection, perhaps necessary from the circumstances of the time, and afterwards a certain negligence of all affairs but those of our domestic polity, suffered this important point to vanish almost wholly out of our consi∣deration. These negotiations pursued with no vigour, and drawn out into an excessive length, seemed only to increase the former confusion. At the treaty of Utrecht, whilst so many more important Interests, or what then seemed more important, were discussed, the limits of Nova Scotia, then called Acadia, were expressed only in general terms, and left to be put on a more certain footing by subsequent negotiations.
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For a long time neither of these powers were sufficiently acquainted with the geography of America, to enable them to ascertain the limits of their several pretensions with any tolerable exact∣ness nor, indeed, were these matters deemed of suffici∣ent moment to call for a very laborious discussion. It is no wonder that the two former powers seizing on a country in which they considered the right of the natural Inhabitants as nothing, should find it a very difficult matter to settle their own. The war in which all parties and interests seem now to be so perfectly blended, arose from causes which originally had not the least connection: the uncertain limits of the English and French territories in America and the mutual claims of the Houses of Austria and Brandenbourg on the dutchy of Silesia. To enter into the spirit of these, without examining the causes which more nearly or remotely operated to produce those troubles that have involved so many parts of the world in one common distraction.
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It would be difficult, perfectly to understand the operations of the several powers at war, without reviewing the tran∣sactions of the preceding years nor would it be easy But, because we have entered upon our undertaking in the heat of an almost general and very im∣portant war, I thought it would not be unnecessary or disagreeable to look a little farther back. THE original plan of this work proposed no more than, that each volume should contain a narra∣tive of those events which distinguish its own Year. King of Prussia enters Saxony and Bohemia.
Ground of the Quarrel between her Im∣perial Majesty and that Monarch. Admiral Bos∣cawen and General Braddock sent thither.