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8387. TERRITORY, British acquisition of American.—[continued].

It was evident to me
that the British had it in view to claim a slice
on our north-western quarter, that they May
get into the Mississippi; indeed, I thought
it presented as a sort of make-weight with
the posts to compensate the great losses their
citizens had sustained by the infractions [of
the treaty of peace] charged on us.—
The Anas. Washington ed. ix, 428. Ford ed., i, 196.
(June. 1792)