The Mohawk deserter was burnt before the departure of the army who camped that same day midway from the fort where the batteaux were left some savages having remained behind in the hope of finding more plunder received the fire of a small party three of them were killed without the enemy daring to advance near enough to take their scalps. The fort was reached on the 10 th and destroyed. The army encamped on the 11 th below the Portage, and on the 12 th at 10 o'clock in the morning at the mouth of the river, on Lake Frontenac. It was time to quit that river, and if the waters had been as low as they ordinarily are in the month ;

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very violent of August a portion of the batteaux should have been, of necessity, abandoned. th and though it was not altogether calm, ten army until the retained the West gale from the leagues were made that day under sail, though we did not leave until noon.

The navigation is pretty dangerous for canoes and batteaux the waves extraordinarily high, and the landing very difficult, there being numerous shoals in some places and in others headlands against which the sea breaks at a stupendous height. We camped in a river where the wind was less violent, ;

and arrived next day, the 15% at Fort Frontenac. On the 16 th the militia and soldiers were occupied in conveying fire-wood to the fort and in cutting and transporting what was necessary for the requisite planks and boards. The masons who had been ,