George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition.

[135] Lawrence, south of Cape Rosieres, designating the line

chap VIII.} 1763 June.

with precision on a map, which is still preserved.¹ At the south, the boundary of Georgia was extended to its present line.

Of Canada, General Murray advised² to make a military colony, and to include the west within its jurisdiction, in order to overawe — the older colonies, and keep them in fear and submission. Against this project Shelburne desired to restrict³ the government of Canada within narrower limits, and to bound it on the west by a line drawn from the intersection of the parallel of forty-five degrees north with the St. Lawrence to the east end of Lake Nipising. This advice was promptly rejected by the imperative Earl of Egremont,⁴ who insisted on including in the new province all the great lakes and all the Ohio valley to the Mississippi; but Shelburne⁵ resolutely enforced his opinion, which, for the time, prevailed,⁶ and the plan of intimidating America by a military colony at its north and west was deferred. With regard to ‘the mode of revenue least burthensome and most palatable to the colonies, whereby they were to contribute to the additional expense which must attend the civil and military establishments adopted on the present occasion,’ Shelburne