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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
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e south, the boundary of Georgia was extended to its present line. Of Canada, General Murray advised General Murray's opinion, given by himself to Frances, as contained in M. Frances au Due de Choiseul, à Londres le 2 Septembre, 1768. to make a military colony, and to include the west within its jurisdiction, in order to overawe — the older colonies, and keep them in fear and submission. Against this project Shelburne desired to restrict Lords of Trade to the Secretary of State, 8 June, 1763. the government of Canada within narrower limits, and to bound it on the west by a line drawn from the intersection of the parallel of forty-five degrees north with the St. Lawrence to the east end of Lake Nipising. This advice was promptly rejected by the imperative Earl of Egremont, Secretary of State to Lords of Trade, 14 July, 1763. who insisted on including in the new province all the great lakes and all the Ohio valley to the Mississippi; but Shelburne Lords of Trade to the S