at all times with an ordinary batteau load of 14 to 1500 weight.

low, an ordinary batteau load cannot go by the river further than within a league of Fort Bull.

It

becomes necessary then to unload and make a Carrying place of the remainder by a road constructed to the Fort, or to send back the batteaux for the other half load. Fort Bull which was burnt in 1756 by a detachment under the orders of M. de Lery, was situated

on the right bank of this River near its source on the height of land.

From Fort Bull to Fort Williams is estimated to be one league and a quarter. 2 This is the Carrying The English had constructed a road there over which all the carplace across the height of land. They were obliged to bridge a portion of it, extending from Fort Bull to a small riages passed. stream near which a fort had been begun though not finished

;

it

was

to

be intermediate between

the two Forts, having been located precisely on the Summit level. • Note in the Original.---

From Chouegen to Fort Bull is estimated to be about 36 leagues.

The ordinary batteau load is only

14 to 1500 weight. It takes five days to ascend the River from Chouegen to Fort Bull and three and a half from Fort Bull to Chouegen. The river of the Five Nations [Seneca Riv.] rises in little lakes near which, about six leagues from its entrance into the River Chouegen, the Indians of the Five Nations reside. That river divides into two branches. That from the Right rises in the Lake of the Senecas and Cayugas; that from the left beyond the Lake of the Ononontagugs.