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Bussy to Choiseul
(Sept. 19, 1761)
Bussy, Francois de in: Affaires
Etrangeres,
Cor. Pol.: Angleterre, 444:311- extract
and in Pease, French Series,
vol. II, 1936, pp. 396-397.
The British minister read the memoir in my presence and stopped at first at the passage of the second article which begins with these words: "Teh second paragraph is neither clear nor exact," etc., and he told me that there were no Indian tribes between the Mississippi and the line drawn on the map which M. Stanley had communicated to you. Accordingly, he did not understand the bearing of your remark, or what might be signif- (page 397) ied by stipulating the independence of the Indian tribes between the lakes and the Mississippi. . .
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