In The End, I Thought I Had Converted The Duke, Well
Disposed Always, To The Wisdom Of Such A Policy.
Following this line,
we discussed many details.
He "would not sell," but he would
"exchange;" and, studying the map, we put our fingers upon the
Aroostook wedge, in the State of Maine - upon a piece of territory at
the head of Lake Superior, and upon islands between British Columbia
and Vancouver's Island - which might be the equivalent of rectification
of boundary on many portions to the Westward along the 49th parallel of
latitude.
Further, at one of our many interviews a name for the new Crown Colony,
if established, was mentioned - "Hysperia." Dr. Mackay had suggested it
to me. The general answer of the Duke was - "Were I a minister of Russia
I should buy the land. It is the right thing to do for many, for all,
reasons; but ministers here must subordinate their views to the
Cabinet." Still, he went so far, that I believed if the Hudson's Bay
property were once bought, the Duke would manage to take the purchase
over for the country. I was too sanguine. I had not measured the
passive resistance of the inside of the Colonial Office to everything
that inside had not initiated; though the fact that day by day
objections, urged to the Duke from inside, were put to me, by him, and,
I believe, always satisfactorily answered, might have warned me. I hope
to live to find three conditions established at the Colonial Office:
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