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.

am assured that the land in the neighbourhood is very fine and fertile, easy of cultivation it is Everything I learn confirms me in the opinion which I entertain, that ;

situate about the 41 th degree.

this post would, in three years at farthest, support itself.

draw war on us, if you wish to avoid it

;

It is to be feared that fortifying it

would

but at the same time I believe that were the Senecas to see

us well planted there, they would be more pliant.

Should this plan be agreeable to you, my Lord, please send masons and plenty of instruments to break up the ground and convey stone.

You will be surprised, my Lord, to learn that Sieur de Chailly, of whom I had the honour to write you this fall, not being able to have his cmge from me to retire to France with all his property which

denonville's expedition to the genesee country and Niagara.

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lie sent off last year before

my arrival, has fled and deserted the Country, to pass over to Orange