Abbe Picquetj much confidence has taken charge of it, and
of testing, as much as possible what reliance is to be placed on the disposition of the Indians. 1 Nevertheless, as Mr de la Gallisonniere had remarked in the month of October, one thousand seven hundred and forty eight, that too much dependence ought not to be placed on them, Mr de la Jonquiere was written to on the fourth of May one thousand seven hundred and forty nine, that lie
should neglect nothing for the formation of this establishment, because if it at all succeeded it would not be difficult to give the Indians to understand that the only means they had to relieve themselves of the pretensions of the English to their lands is the destruction of Choueguen which they founded solely with a view to bridle these Nations ;
but it was necessary to be prudent and circumspect to
induce the Savages to undertake it. 31st gbe r 1719.
Mr. de la Jonquiere sends a plan drawn by Sieur de Lery of the ground selected
by the Abbe Picquet for his mission and a letter from that Abbe containing a Relation of his voyage and the situation of the place. He says he left the fourth of May last year with twenty-five Frenchmen and four Iroquois Indians he arrived the thirtieth at the River de la Presentation, called Soegatzy. The land there is the finest There is Oak timber in abundance, and trees of a prodigious size and height, but it will