註釋 "To get the proper perspective in a scheme of this nature, one must go back about two hundred years, to the period when the activity of the Board of Trade and Plantations was at its height in ilorth American colonial government. This period opens in 1696, and ceases only with the seperation of the larger portion of these colonies from Great Britain. It will, of course, be necessary to subdivide this and the subsequent periods, in order to distinguish the sources of the schemes. After the introduction, which covers the years to 1754, there will be plans from the American and British sources, until the revolt of the present United States. Prom then to 1824 several Canadian proposals will be discussed. ..."-- 