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.

them thereby of a

This destruction is of such

great importance, both as regards our possessions and the attachment of the savages and their Trade, that it is proper to use every means to engage the Iroquois to undertake it.

This is actually the only

means that cau be employed, but you must feel that it requires much prudence and circumspection." Mr. Picquet eminently possessed the qualities requisite to effect the removal of the English from our neighbourhood. Therefore the General, the Intendant, and the Bishop deferred absolutely to him in the selection of the settlement for this new Mission, and despite the efforts of those who had opposite interests, he was entrusted with the undertaking. The Fort of La Presentation is situated at 302 deg. 40 min. Longitude, and at 44 deg. 50 min. Latitude on the Presentation River, which the Indians name Soegasti, thirty leagues above MontReal fifteen leagues from Lake Ontario or Lake Frontenac, which with Lake Champlain gives rise 15 leagues west of the source of the River Hudson which falls into the to the River St. Laurence Fort Frontenac had been built near there in 1671, to arrest the incursions of the sea at New York. English and the Iroquois the bay served as a port for the Mercantile and Military Marine which had been formed there on that sort of sea where the tempests are as frequent and as dangerous as on the ocean.