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

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be necessary, for the defence of the settlement, to fell them without permission.

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sufficient on the land he had cleared to build a bark.

He then set about building a storehouse to secure his effects

;

he, next, had erected a small fort of

pickets and he will have a small house constructed which will serve as a bastion.

Sieur Picquet had a special interview with the Indians ; they were satisfied with all he had done

and assured him they were willing to follow his advice and to immediately establish their village. To accomplish tin's, they are gone to regulate their affairs and have promised to return with their provisions.

The situation of this post is very advantageous at the head of all the rapids, on the

;

it is

on the borders of the River de la Presentation,

west side of a beautiful basin formed by that river, capable of

easily holding forty or fifty barks.

In all parts of it there has been found at least two fathoms and a half of water and often four fathoms.