Lake Ontario, an establishment which succeded beyond his hopes, and has been the most useful of all those of Canada. Mr. Rouille, Minister of the Marine wrote on the 4 lh May 1749 "A large number of Iroquois declared that they were embracing desirous of Christianity, it has been proposed to establish having ;

a Mission towards Fort Frontenac in order to attract the greatest number possible thither. It is Abbe Picquet, a zealous Missionary and in whom these Nations seem to have confidence, who has

He was to have gone last year, to select a suitable site for the

been entrusted with this negotiation.

establishment of the Mission, and verify as precisely as was possible what can be depended upon relative to the dispositions of these

same nations.

In a letter of the 5 ,h October last, M. de la Gallisonniere stated that though an entire confidence cannot be placed in those they have manifested, it is notwithstanding of

so much importance to succeed in dividing them, that nothing must be neglected It is for this reason that His Majesty desires you shall prosecute the design

that can contribute to it.

of the proposed settlement.

If it could attain a certain success, it would not be difficult then to

make the savages understand that the only means of extricating themselves from the pretensions of the English to

them and their lands, is to destroy Choueguen,

so as to deprive

Post which they established chiefly with a view to control their tribes.