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.

This basin is so located that no wind scarcely can prevent its being entered.

very low in a level country the point of which runs far out.

The bank is

The passage across is hardly a quarter

1 The following Extract from Paris Doc. X., furnishes the date of the Abbt- Picquet's departure to establish his colony on the Oswegatchie River :--" 30 Sept. 1748. The AbbC Picquet departs from Quebec for Fort Frontenac; he is to look in the neighbourhood of that Fort, for a location best adapted for a village for the Iroquois of the Five Nations who propose

to embrace Christianity."

EARLY SETTLEMENT AT OGDENSBURGH.

A fort on this point would would be impossible to approach, and nothing commands, it. The east side is be impregnable more elevated, and runs by a gradual inclination into an Amphitheatre. A beautiful town could

of a league, and all the canoes going up or down, cannot pass elsewhere. ;

it

hereafter be built there.