@ fifteen to twenty livres instead of forty-five and fifty livres which are given for the whole

voyage.

Other batteaux of La Presentation would convey them farther on, and the first would take

in return plank, boards

and other timber, abundant there.

This timber would not come to more

than twelve

@ fifteen livres, whilst they are purchased at sixty-eight livres at Montreal and sometimes more.

Eventually this post will be able to supply Fort Frontenac with provisions which will

save the King considerable expense.

The Abbe" Picquet adds in his letter, that he examined in his voyage the nature of the rapids of the Fort Frontenac river, very important to secure to us the possession of Lake Ontario on which the Enghsh have an eye.

The most dangerous of those rapids, in number fourteen, are the Trou Abbe Picquet points out a mode of rendering this River navigable and to meet the expense he proposes a tax of ten livres on each canoe sent up and an ecu (fifty cents) on each of the crew, which according to him will produce three thousand livres, a sum sufficient for the workmen. (the Hole) and the Buisson (the Thicket). ;

Mess ls de la Jonqui^re and Bigot remark that they find this establishment necessary as well as the erection of a saw mill, as it will diminish the expense in the purchase of timber ; but as regards the

Rapids they will verify them in order to ascertain if in fact the river can be rendered navigable and they will send an estimate of the works. -