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Thwaites, LXXI, 4iff. ; Shea, Life of Archbishop Carroll, 114-129. CHAPTER V. TRADE CONDITIONS IN THE ILLINOIS COUNTRY, I76S-I775. THE peltry trade had been one of the chief elements in the rivalry between France and England in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. It was the main support of the French government in Canada and now that the English were in possession of the great peltry districts the management of the trade deserved most serious consideration. It was be- coming of increasing importa...nce to the manufacturing monopoly of the mother country, and therefore, in the minds of English statesmen, deserved far more attention than did the few thousand French colonists scattered throughout the West. The desire to increase this branch of commerce dictated in large measure those clauses in the proclamation of 1763, which forbade the formation of settle- ments or the purchase of lands within the Indian reserva- tion, but which at the same time declared that trade with the Indians should be free and open to all English subjects alike.
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