Geographers, Historians, [53] and experience itself, show us that every year a great many people leave France who go to enroll themselves elsewhere. For, although the Soil of our country is very fertile, the French women have this blessing, that they are still more so; and thence it happens that our ancient Gauls, in want of land, went to seek it in different parts of Europe. The Galatians draw their origin from them; they have crossed Italy, they have passed into Greece, and into many other regions. At present, our French people are no less numerous than our old Gauls; but they do not go forth in bands, but separately, some going in one direction, some in another, to make their fortunes among Strangers. Would it not be better to empty Old France into New, by means of Colonies [54] which could be sent there, than to people Foreign countries? Adioustez, s'il vous plaist, qu'il y a vne infinité d'artisans en France, qui faute d'employ, ou faute de posseder quelque peu de terre, passent leur vie dans vne pauureté, & dans vne disette pitoyable. Vn tres-grand nombre vont mandier leur pain de porte en porte: plusieurs se iettent dedans les vols & dans les brigandages publics; d'autres dans les larcins & tromperies secrettes, chacun s'efforçant de tirer à soy ce que plusieurs ne sçauroient posseder. Or comme la Nouuelle France est de si grande estenduë, on y peut enuoyer si bon nombre d'habitans, que ceux qui resteront à l'Ancienne auront dequoy employer leur industrie honnestement, sans se ietter dans des vices qui perdent les Republiques; ce n'est pas qu'il fallust [55] enuoyer icy des personnes perduës, & de mauuaise vie: car ce seroit bastir des Babylones; mais les bons faisant places aux méchants, leurs donneroient occasion de fuyr l'oysiueté qui les corrompt. Add to this, if you please, that there is a multitude of workmen in France, who, for lack of employment or of owning a little land, pass their lives in poverty and wretched want. Many of them beg their bread from door to door; some of them resort to stealing and public brigandage, others to larceny and secret frauds, each one trying to obtain for himself what many cannot possess. Now as New France is so immense, so many inhabitants can be sent here that those who remain in the Mother Country will have enough honest work left them to do, without launching into those vices which ruin Republics; this does not mean that [55] ruined people, or those of evil lives, should be sent here, for that would be to build Babylons; but if the good were to make room for the bad, it would give the latter an opportunity to escape the idleness that corrupts them.