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1103. CANADA, Indemnification and. [further continued].

Could we acquire that
country, we might perhaps insist successfully at St. Petersburg on retaining all westward of the meridian of Lake Huron, or of Ontario,
or of Montreal, according to the pulse of the
place, as an indemnification for the past and
security for the future. To cut them off from


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the Indians even west of the Huron would be
a great future security.—
To James Monroe. Washington ed. vi, 131.
(M. June. 1813)