The Great importance of Cape Breton
Subtitle: demonstrated and exemplified by extracts from the best writers, French and English, who have treated of that colony : in this pamphlet is included all that Father Charlevoix says of this island in his celebrated History of New-France ... , and Savary, in his Dictionary of commerce ... : also additional remarks by the compiler, with a map and plan from Charlevoix, and references giving a distinct idea of the late siege
Contributors: Charlevoix, Pierre-François-Xavier de, 1682-1761.; Savary des Brûlons, Jacques, 1657-1716.
Series: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time -- 28448
Publisher: Printed for John Brindley
Published: 1746
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Louisbourg (N.S.) -- History -- Siege, 1745; Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Description and travel; Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- History
Notes: "The whole containing, besides the most accurate descriptions of the place, a series of the arguments that induced the French Court to settle and fortify it : the plan laid down for making the establishment, and the great progress made in execution of that plan : with the reasons that induced the people of New-England to subdue this formidable and dangerous rival, and that should determine the British nation never to part with it again, on any consideration whatever."

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Sabin, 28448

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