Louis, because it was commenced the week of the celebration of the festival of that great saint, protector of our Kings and of France, was built by M. de Sorel, who commanded five other companies of the Regiment of the Carignan The [third] fort was fortunately finished in the month of October on St. Theresa's Salieres. From this third fort of St. Therese we can easily reach Lake derived its name. day, whence it .
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Champlain without meeting any rapids to stop the batteaux. This Lake, after a length of sixty leagues, finally terminates in the country of the Mohawk Iroquois. intended to build there, early next spring, a fourth fort, which will command those coun-
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tries, and from which continual attacks can be made on the enemy, if they do not listen to reason.
We shall give at the end of the next chapter, the plan of these three forts, with the map of the Iroquois country 1 which has not been as yet seen, after having given some particulars of those people?
who thwart us so long a time, because they have never been efficiently attacked.
OF THE IROQUOIS COUNTRY AND THE ROUTES LEADING THITHER. It must be premised that the Iroquois are composed of five Nations, of which the nearest to the
Dutch, is that of the Mohawk consisting of two or three villages containing about three to four hundred men capable of bearing arms. These have always been at war with us, though they sometimes pretended to sue for peace.