The English to throw disorder into this new levy sent a good deal of brandy. Some savages did, He therefore desired much that Choeguen in fact get drunk whom M. Picquet could not bring along. were destroyed and the English prevented rebuilding it and in order that we should be absolutely masters of the south side of Lake Ontario, he proposed erecting a Fort near there at the bay of the Cayugas 3 which would make a very good harbour and furnish very fine anchorage. No place is ;

better adapted for a Fort.

He examined attentively the Fort of Choeguen, a post the most pernicious to France that the English could erect. in time of war.

It was commanded

almost from all sides and could be very easily approached

It was a two story very low building ;

decked like a ship and surmounted on the

top by a gallery ; the whole was surrounded by a stone wall, flanked only with two bastions at the side towards the nearest hill.

Two batteries each of three twelve pounders, would have been more

than sufficient to reduce that establishment to ashes.

It was prejudicial to us by the facility it af-

1 The Genesee River. In Belin's Map of Partie Orcidentale de la Nouvelle France, 1755 (No. 992 W. C. State Lib.) it is described as a " River unknown to Geographers, filled with Rapids and Waterfalls."

2 The highest fall on the river is 105 feet. 3 Sodus bay.