Volume 7

A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies ... / Rev., augm., and pub., in ten volumes, by the Abbé Raynal. Newly translated. from the French, by J.O. Justamond. F.R.S., with a new set of maps adapted to the work, and a copious index.

  • Raynal, abbé (Guillaume-Thomas-François), 1713-1796.
Date:
1783
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Credit: A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies ... / Rev., augm., and pub., in ten volumes, by the Abbé Raynal. Newly translated. from the French, by J.O. Justamond. F.R.S., with a new set of maps adapted to the work, and a copious index. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    B ^ five of which are iituated upon the eaftern border u—Y-w, of the river. Unfortunately, moft of thefe people have en- tertained a paflion for running about the woods to buy up the peltries, or have indulged thennfelves with remaining in their warehoufes, waiting till the favages brought them the produce of their chafer They would have worked more ufefully for themfelves, for the colony, and for France, had they digged the excellent foil upon which chance had placed them 5 and had they required of it the feveral kinds of -corn produced in the Old World, which Louifiana hath been obligejd ' to drav/ from Europe, or from North America. But how much hath the fettlement formed by the French in the country of the Illinois, and how much have their other fcttlements fallen fliort of this profperity ? Never did the colony, in it’s greateft fplen- dour, reckon more than feven thoufand Negroes, exclufive of the troops, the number of which varied, from three hundred to two thoufand men. This feeble population was fcattered along the borders of the Miffifiippi, throughout a fpace of five hundred leagues î and was defended by a few fmall forts, fituated at an immenfe diftance from each other. Neverthelcfs, thefe men were not defeended from that feum of Europe, which France had, as it were, vomited forth into the , New World at the time of Law’s fyflem. All thofe miferable men had periflied, without leav- ing any iflue. The colonifts were robufl men, o arrived \