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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These are French feet.

The falls on the American side are 164 feet high.-- Burr's Atlas, Introd. p. 31.

EARLY SETTLEMENT AT 06DENSBURGH.

Picquet counted there as many as fifty canoes. There was notwithstanding at Niagara a Trading House where the Commandant and Trader lodged, but it was too small, and the King's property was not safe there.

M. Picquet negotiated with the Senecas who promised to repair to his Mission and gave him twelve him

children as hostages, saying to him that their parents had nothing dearer to them and followed

He set out immediately, as well as the Chief of the Little Rapid with all his family abandon Chabert de Joncaire would not him. with all those Savages to return to Fort Niagara. M. At eacli place where they encountered camps, cabins and entrepots, they were saluted with musquetry by the Indians who never ceased testifying their consideration for the Missionary. M. Picquet took rs the lead with the Savages of the hills ; Mess Joncaire and Rigouille following with the recruits. He embarked with thirty-nine Savages in his large canoe and was received on arriving at the fort with