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OUR last Papers brought the Line of Towns, Strengthned for the Defence of the French Monarchy from Dunkirk, on the Sea-shoar, to the edge of Lorrain.
And here to have a good Barrier, the French has always thought fit to keep the Duke of Lorrain under his foot.
The two Famous High-Ways made about the Year 1676, thro’ the whole Country of Lorrain, are Monuments of the entire Submission of the Duke of Lorrain: these traverse his whole Country, for the March of the King’s Armies to Alsace and the Middle Rhine; and as they are always kept in repair, and are broad enough for the Horse to March a full Squadron in Front; it mightily facilitates the March of the French Forces that way.
On the East of Lorrain, the Kingdom of France, which is openest on this side, always preserved the Possession of the Saar and the Moselle; here Saar Louis and Montroyal were wholly built by his Majesty’s Directions, the last Demolished by the late Peace; besides this he has the Castle of Traerback, the Cities of Mets, Thionville, Saar-bruck, Saar-alb, and a whole Line of small Places, from the City of Treves, on the Moselle, to Saarburgh, on the edge of Burgundy. Continue reading Saturday, June 3. 1704.