OF JEREE MEN SENT FROM LAKE GEORGE TO RECONOITRE FORT FREDERICK, OR CROWN POINT FORT THE NEW WORKS, AND ARMY THERE.

Set, forward in a Battoe from the Encampment, the 14th Sept-- at about 25 miles distance down the Lake, landed about day light, took the Battoe out & hid it, left two Men of Connecticut Forces there to watch the Battoe, & Provisions till our return-- Saw, that morning, Sundry Indian Canoes passing in the Lower part of the Lake. Went forward towards Crown Point.

The 17th day, at evening discovered the wheat fields, & four houses, about 2 miles Southerly from Crown Point Fort. In the night went to the Intrenchment, made from the Fort, Encompassing a little Hill, the Trenches not finished, but reaches about thirty rods from the Fort. Which Intrenchment begins at the Southwest Corner of the Fort, & Trends Southwesterly, about two rods wide at the Fort, & widens to about 15, at the other End--went into the Trench, & spent the night, for discovery in & about there till morning, & then retired to a Mountain, about a Mile West from the Fort, where there was a Clear view of all the Fort and appurtenances--and saw an addition to the Fort, from the Northwest Corner, about 25 rods, which reached to the Water side, Inclosing some Buildings--many Tents set up in it. 'A Windmill about Sixty rods South of the Fort, in which Space many Tents were up--had a Clear discovery of the Fort, & appurtenances. The Soldiery were Mustered, & Exercised-- the whole of French, & Indians we Judged were near upon Five or Six hundred.