This march could not but be tedious, every one having snow shoes on his feet, to the use of which none were accustomed, and all, not excepting the officers nor even M. de Courcelles himself, being loaded, each witli from 25 to 30 pounds of biscuit, clothing and other necessary supplies. A more difficult or longer march than that of tills little army, can scarcely be met with iu any history, and it required a French courage and the perseverance of M. de Courcelles, to undertake it. In addition to the embarrassment caused by the snow shoes, which is a species of great inconvenience and that of the burthen which each one was obliged to carry, it was necessary to walk three hundred leagus on the snow cross lakes and rivers continually on the ice in danger of making as many falls as steps sleep only on the snow in the midst of the forest and endure a cold surpassing by many degrees in severity that of the most rigorous European winters. Om- troops, however, having gone the first day to Sillery to recommend the success of their entertook for his Lieutenant

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prize to St. Michael the Archangel the patron of that place ;

many had, as early as the third day,

the nose, the ears, the knees and the fingers or other parts entirely frozen and the remainder of the

body covered with cicatrixes, and some others wholly overcome and benumbed by the cold would have perished in the snow, had they not been carried, though with considerable difficulty, to the place where they were to pass the night.