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wooden fortification formerly flood. We 

 arrived here fome time before noon, and 

 refled a while. Colonel Lydius refided here 

 till the beginning of the laft war, chiefly 

 with a view of carrying on a greater trade 

 with the French Indians -, but during the 

 war, they burnt his houfe, and took his 

 fon prifoner. The fort was lituated on a 

 plain, but at prefent the place is all over- 

 grown with a thicket. It was built in the 

 year 1709, during the war which Queen 

 Anne carried on againfc the French* and it 

 was named after the brave Englifh general 

 Nicbolfon. It was not fo much a fort, as a 

 magazine to Fort Anne. In the year 171 1, 

 when the Englijh naval attempt upon Cana- 

 da mifcarried, the "Englijh themlelves fet 

 fire to this place. The foil hereabouts 

 feems to be pretty fertile. The river Hud- 

 Jon paifed clofe by here. 



Some time in the afternoon, we conti- 

 nued our journey. We had hitherto followed 

 the eaftern more of the river Hudjon, and 

 gone aimed due North , but now we 

 left it ? and went E. N. E. or N. E. acrofs 

 the woods, in order to come to the up- 

 per end of the river Woodcreek* which 

 flows to. Fort St. Frederic, where we 

 might go in a boat from the former 

 place. The ground we palled over this 



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