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

1st 8ber, 1749. for

Ogdensburgh is 105 miles from Montreal; 60 from Kingston, Can., and about 90 from Oswego.

in the Text are very accurate, considering the time and the circumstances.

The distances laid down

EARLY SETTLEMENT AT OGDENSBURGH. ten sous.'

Provisions were also furnished him for himself and workmen, and this settlement is only

M. de la Jonquiere cannot dispense Avith sending an officer there and some soldiers. Sieur de la Morandiere, Engineer, is to be sent there this winter to draw out a plan of quarters for commenced.

these soldiers and a store for provisions.

If there be not a garrison at thatpost, a considerable foreign

trade will be carried on there. 7th 9ber 1749.

Since all these letters M. de la Jonquiere has written another in which he states Longueuil informed him that a band of Savages believed to be Mohawks had attacked that M. de

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Sieur Picquet's Mission on the twenty-sixth of October last that Sieur de Vassau, commandant of Fort Frontenac, had sent a detachment thither which could not prevent the burning of two vessels loaded with hay and the palisades of the fort. Abbe Picquet's house alone was saved.