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.

This post

is, moreover,

so

much the more advantageous as the English and Iroquois can easily

descend to Montreal by the River de la Presentation which has its source in a lake bordering on the

Mohawks and Corlar.

If they take possession of this River they will block the passage

iu Fort

Whereas by means of a Fort at the Point, it would be easy to have a force there in case of need to despatch to Choueguen and to intercept the Enghsh and Indians who may want to penetrate into the Colony, and the voyage to Missilimakinac could be made Frontenac and more easily assist Choueguen.

in safety.

Moreover, this establishment is only thirty-live leagues from Montreal twenty-five from Fort Frontenac and thirty three from Choueguen ; l a distance sufficient to remove the Indians from the ;

disorders

which the proximity of Forts and Towns ordinarily engenders among them.