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Subject Terms United States -- Politics and government -- 1754-1763.

1. Geographical, historical, political, philosophical and mechanical essays : Number II. containing a letter, representing the impropriety of sending forces to Virginia : the importance of taking Frontenac : and that the preservation of Oswego was owing to General Shirley's proceeding thither : containing objections to those parts of Evan's general map and analysis, which relate to the French title to the country, on the north-west side of St. Laurence River, between Fort Frontenac and Montreal, &c. : published in the New-York Mercury, no. 178. Jan. 5, 1756 : with an answer to so much thereof as concerns the public : and the several articles set in a just light / by Lewis Evans.

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Creator:: Evans, Lewis, 1700?-1756
Date:: MDCCLVI [1756]
Physical Description:: v, [1], 7-35, [1] pages ; 26 cm (4to)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. State of the British and French colonies in North America : with respect to number of peoples, forces, forts, Indians, trade and other advantages : in which are considered, I. The defenceless condition of our plantations, and to what causes owing : II. Pernicious tendency of the French encroachments, and the fittest methods of frustrating them : III. What it was occasioned their present invasion, and the claims on which they ground their proceedings : with a proper expedient proposed for preventing future disputes : in two letters to a friend.

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Date:: MDCCLV [1755]
Physical Description:: [2], 190 (that is, 150) pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts