It is at the entrance of Lake Ontario from the extremity of which the Senecas are distant only five or six leagues, in a beautiful country towards the South.

The position of this fort is sufficiently favorable to secure the barks against the storms and the atThe passage to be made through this lake is forty or fifty leagues before disembarking near the Senecas. The three barks at Catarokuy will be particularly useful in this enterprize by putting them in repair, for they

tacks of the Indians at a trifling expense which will require to be made on it.

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It appears to me extremely important that the King render himself absolute master of this Lake, which is more than three hundred leagues in circumference. I am persuaded that the English would like particularly to have a post there, which would be immensely prejudicial to the Colony and the King's power on this Continent ; his Majesty could easily make himself master of it, without any

opposition, by the permanent establishment of a post, with vessels on this lake,

and by another fort

DENONVILLE's EXPEDITION TO THE GENESEE COUNTRY AND NIAGARA.

and vessels on lake Erie which is only two leagues distant, by the Niagara River, from this lake Ontario ;

but as tins post cannot be established until after the Iroquois are conquered, I shall, before

entering into a detail of the means of conquering that Nation, again say, regarding the importance