56 Andrew Stuart on the 
by Mr. Févret de Fontette, and now in the King’s library at 
Paris, wlll be found the following plans, &c., relating to Ca- 
nada. 
Under the year 1690, ‘Petite Carte du Canada, ou le Che- 
¢* valier Guillaume Phips, fit une tentative inutile, les 10 et 19 
“* Octobre. Les Anglois canonent Quebec, le 10 Octobre.” 
Under the year 1758. Plan de Louisbourg en Canada, 
rendu aux Auglois le 26 Juillet.— Perien, 
Under the year 1759, Plan de la ville et dusiege de Qué- 
bec, pris par les Anglois le 18 Septembre-—Inem. 
Under the year i760, Plans de la bataille de Quebec, les 
attaques du Fort Carillon du 8 de Juillet, de celle du Fort 
de William Henry le 7 Aodt, et de celles de Chouaguen le 
12 Aodit.—Prnrirr. 
The foregoing are extracted from the Appendix to the 
4th volume of the Bibliotheque Historique de France. 
Upon the cession of the Canadas to Great Britain by the 
Treaty of Paris in 1763, this tract continued to be granted 
to lessees under leases of twenty-one years. i, 
It was the interest of the lessees to exclude strangers as 
much as possible and to keep secret the resources of the 
country as well for the purpose of maintaining their monopos 
Jy, as for that of preventing competition, when the Jease 
should come at the end of each twenty.one years to be brought 
to sale. 
Accordingly, down to within the last six or eight years 
nothing was known of this country. The most ridiculous 
stories were circulated and believed of the dangers of the na. 
vigation of the Saguenay, of its falls which no man had ever 
approached, of its unfathomable depth, and of the severity 
of the climate, &c. &c, 
The account given of this country before a committee of 
the assembly, to whom was referred the matter of the Crown 
lands, by two gentlemen of the highest respectability, the 
Messrs. Taché of Kamouraska, who had long resided there, 
first awakeued the public attention to it, 
