ing Some few Casks of Brandy & Wine which we hid in very secure: Places with our Whale boats at Some Distance on ye opposite Shore the Prisners informed yt about five hundred men of which they were foremost, were on their Passage at about two Legs Distance which occasioned us to set forward on our Return y® Morning of the 8t* Currant & persued our March till ye 12tb Where we arrived on the West Side of Lake George about twenty five miles from Fort Wilm Henry & Sent Lieut Rogers to said fort for Battoes & Provisions to Carry us by water the 14th in ye evening y® Lieut Returned to us with thirty men and ten Battoes & y® 15th at two of the Clock we arrived safe With all my Party & Prisners at Fort Wil™ Henry.

Rogert Rocers

To Sir Wil™ Johnson

CORNELIUS CUYLER'S CALCULATION OF THE DISTANCE

FROM ALBANY TO CROWN POINT.

From Albany to Still Water - - - - 22 mills from Still Water to Sarichtoge - . - 14 from Sarichtoge to the Great Carrying Place - 14 from the Carrying Place a Cross to Wood Creek 10 from the Wood Creek Down to the forks - - 6 from the forks to the Little falls Being the end of

the Wood Creek - - - - - - 24

from the Little falls to the Narrows in the Drowned Lands, where 2 hills are opposite one

another - - - - - is 9 from the Narrows to Tjondaroge where Lake St