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view extends to a great distance they have the advantage of the landing of all the canoes and barks

which land and are in safety there. But the rain was washing the soil away by degrees, notwithstanding the vast expence which the King incurred to sustain it. M. Picquet was of opinion that

the space between the land and the wharf might be filled in so as to support it and make a glacis

This place was important as a Trading post and as securing possession of the Carrying place,

there. Niagara and Lake Ontario. From Niagara, Mr. Picquet went to the Carrying place which is six leagues from that Post. He

visited on the same day the famous Fall of Niagara by which the four Great Canada lakes discharge

themselves into Lake Ontario. This Cascade is as prodigious by its height and the quantity of water

which falls there, as by the variety of its falls which are to the number of six principal ones divided

by a small island, leaving three to the North and three to the South. They produce of themselves a

singular symmetry and wonderful effect. He measured the height of one of those falls from the

The establishment at this Carrying

60Uth side, and he found it about one hundred and forty feet. The Indians, who

place, the most important in a commercial point of view was the worst stocked.

came there in great numbers, were in the best disposition to trade, but not finding what they wanted,

they went to Choucguen or Choeguen [Oswego] at the mouth of the river of the same name. M.

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