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1667. "The Canadians receive a large re-inforcement from France, which enables them to furnish three thousand men for the field. At this time, however, the French began to be sensible that a war of extermination, however successful, was altogether impolite, inasmuch as it could only serve to curtail their trade with the Indians, which it was their true policy to increase. Measures were accordingly taken for a general pacification."