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JOURNEYS OF
culty will be removed, which again would
not have any foundation, even if Fort St.
Louis were to remain. The Illinois will
only kill the beaver, which, after their departure,
would fall to the share of the Iroquois
only, as no other nation dares to approach
these districts. There is also no
likelihood that deserters would choose a
long and difficult route, at the end of which
they would be still subject to be apprehended
and punished, whilst they have another
much shorter and easier one to New
England, where they are quite secure, and
which many take every year.
A second objection would be that the
goodness of the country would attract so
many people as to diminish the population
of France, as it is said Mexico and Peru
have depopulated Spain; but, besides that
France is more peopled than Spain has ever
been, and that the expulsion of one million
eight hundred thousand Moors, added to
the great wars she has had to sustain,
is the real cause of its diminished population,
it is certain that the number of the
few Spaniards in those kingdoms, who are
not above forty thousand, is not a number
of emigrants sufficient to make any perceptible
change in France, which already counts
more than one hundred thousand settlers in
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Cox, Isaac Joslin. The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 1, book, 1922; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6104/m1/232/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.