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 ,

COUNT FRONTENACS EXPEDITION AGAINST THE ONONDAGAS. left

there

had erected during the Count's absence a building of 120 feet, along one of the curtains,

not so high on that side as the parapet.

The wood work is attached, and there is a range of loop

holes along the upper loft as in the remainder of the fort. officers' quarters, a bakery and

This long building contains a chapel, the

the stores which are at present

filled

with provisions for the subsistence of the troops for more than eight months, exclusive of refreshments and what will be required for the Indians who may pass there. The two pieces of cannon, one of which was employed in the campaign and a quantity of grenades were left there. The army sojourned there the 17 th ; encamped

on the 18 th at La Galette and on the 19 th on Lake St. Francis. On the same day, the enemy attacked some canoes of our people, who had found means to precede us. One of our party was drowned, one wounded; the enemy lost three men and could not be captured by a detachment which was sent in pursuit.