Independent of mere provisions, how many other necessaries and munitions are required This post, my Lord, would absolutely close the entire road to the Outaouacs against the English, and would enable us to prevent the Iroquois carrying their peltries to the latter for with the redoubt at Catarokouy which would serve us as an Entrepot to shelter our barks from the storms in winter, we having posts at both sides of the Lake could render ourselves Masters of the hunting of that Nation who can support itself merely by that means and would draw but little from the English if it had no more peltries to give them What is very certain, they would carry them much fewer than act so

;

;

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!

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:

heretofore. I propose to send Sieur D'Orvilliers to Niagara this year with Sieur de Villeneuve, the draughtsman

whom you gave me, to draw the plan, and after I shall have seen the Iroquois at Villemarie on the Island of Montreal and we shall

know what we have to expect from them, I'll see if I shall not be

able to take a trip thither myself, in order to furnish

you with a more certain report thereon

;

for to

rely on Sieur de Villeneuve alone, he is a very good, very accurate, very faithful draughtsman, but in other respects he has not a very well ordered

mind

;

it is

too confined to be able to furnish out of

his own head any ideas for the establishment of a post and its management.