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. -

They have caused five cannon of two pound calibre to be sent to Abbe Picquet for his little fort so as to give confidence to his Indians and to persuade them that they will be in security there.

M. de la Jonquiere in particular says, he will see if the proprietors of batteaux would contribute to the expense necessary to be incurred for the Rapids ;

but he asks that convicts from the galleys

or people out of work (gens inutiles) be sent every year to want of men, and the few he has exact high wages.

Mm to cultivate the ground.

He is in

Mr. Bigot also sends a special memoir oi the expense incurred by Abbe Picquet improvements (defrichemens) amounting to three thousand four hundred and eighty five livres