There were in the Fort, seven small stone guns and eleven four to six pounders.

The most distinguished of the Iroquois families were distributed at La Presentation in three vilthat which adjoined the French fort contained, in 1754, forty-nine bark cabins some of which were from sixty to eighty feet long and accommodated three to four families. The place pleased them on account of the abundance of hunting and fishing. This Mission could no doubt be increased,

lages

:

but cleared land

sufficient to allow all the families to plant

and to aid them to subsist would be

necessary and each Tribe should have a separate location

The Bishop of Quebec wishing to witness and assure himself personally of the wonders related to him of the establishment La Presentation went thither in 1749, accompanied by some Officers, royal interpreters, Priests from other Missions and several other clergymen, and spent ten days examining and causing the at

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EARLY SETTLEMENT AT OGDENSBUEGH. Catechumens to be examined.

He himself baptized one hundred and thirty-two, and did not cease

during his sojourn, blessing Heaven for the progress of Religion among these Infidels. Scarcely were they baptized when M. Picket determined to give them a form of Government.

He

Twelve Ancients; chose the most influential among the Five Nations; brought them to Mont-Real where at the hands of the Marquis Du Quesne they took the Oath of Allegiance to the King to the great astonishment of the whole Colony where no person dared to hope for such an event. In the month of June 1751, M. Picquet made a voyage around Lake Ontario with a King's Canoe and one of Bark in Avhich he had five trusty Savages, with the design of attracting some Indian families to the new settlement of La Presentation. There is a memoir, among his papers on the subject, from which it is proposed to give an extract. established a Council of