Excerpt from The Canadian Canals: Their History and Cost, With an Inquiry Into the Policy Necessary to Advance the Well-Being of the Province Mr. Bancroft in his history, volume 4, page 260, expresses surprise that Amherst should have taken this route. The reason is very obvious. It was to prevent the retreat of the remainder of the French army by the St. Lawrence to the valley of the Mississippi. A line of tactics correct in theoretical strategy as it proved suc cessful in practice. It is a curious analogy that the western producer hopeless of the improvement of the St. Lawrence, should like M. De Vaudreuil a century back, turn his thoizgfiilts to the Great Western stream as a refuge. (report Canal Conven tion held at cago, 1863, passim.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.