As a remedy for these Evils, which are almost as great as can befall the Nation, I propose that a Regiment of eight hundred men be sent from England (or if half the number of private men be sent, the other half I believe may be raised here) with an Engineer, Artillery, and Ammunition, & posted in the Sineca's Country on the Lake Cadaraqui, at a proper Harbour for building of Vessells there being more than one of sufficient depth of Water, That the Harbour be fortify ed and Barracks it)

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erected for the men.

That there be then built two or three Vessels of superior force to those of

the French, on board whereof a few sailors, & a sufficient number of soldiers being put with proper Officers, we may take, sink or otherwise destroy the French Vessells, and then easily take their Forts

on the Lake, & for ever hinder them from building more on those shores, or any Vessells on the Lake, nor (if they should build any in the River St. Lawrence) can they carry them against that rapid stream into the Lake. The consequences whereof will be of the greatest moment. All our Colonies

from this to Georgia, will be secure from the incursions of the French in time of War. The Indians depending on the Governments of Virginia, Carolina and Georgia, who are now almost every year attacked by the French, and their Indians will live unmolested ; All the Indian Nations living on or near the Lakes, and all those over whom the French at present have a very great power, will no