France and Country of Canada, dated the 6 th of July of the present year, wherein he is ordered to demolish the fortification of the said Fort, with the exception of the cabins and quarters, which will

be found standing (en nature) ;

We, Chevalier de La Motthe, Lieutenant of a detached company of

the Marine, and Major of said Fort, have made a Proces Verbal, by order of said Commandant, containing a Memorandum of the condition in which we leave said quarters which will remain entire, to maintain the possession His district.

Majesty and the French have for a long time had in this Niagara

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DENONVILLe's EXPEDITION TO THE GENESEE COUNTRY AND NIAGARA.

Firstly :--

We leave in the centre of the Square a large, framed, wooden Cross, eighteen feet in height, on the arms of which are inscribed in large letters, these words

:

which was erected on last Good Friday by all the officers and solemnly blessed by the Rev. Fath

r

Millet.

Item, a Cabin in which the Commandant lodged, containing a good chimney, a door and two windows furnished with their hinges, fastenings and locks, which cabin is covered with forty-four deal boards and about six other boards arranged inside into a sort of bedstead. Item, in the immediate vicinity of said Cabin is another cabin with two rooms having each its chimney ceiled (lambrises) with boards and in each a little window and three bedsteads, the door furnished with its hinges and fastenings the said Cabin is covered with fifty deal boards and there ;