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^ast compleated, and abandoned the fort ; leav- 

 ing- a match to twenty eight barrels of powder, 

 disposed with a design to blow up the works. 

 The troops went down the river with such ra- 

 pidity and fear, that one of their battoes, with 

 her crew, was swallowed up in one of the falls. 

 The confederates were in all the animation and 

 insolence of victor}^ : They seized the fort at 

 Cadai'aqui, with all the powder and stores ; 

 they sent their scouts every where, to invade 

 the frontiers, and break up the settlements in 

 Canada. The French were involved in every 

 kind of difliculty and danger ; their borders 

 were invested, inroads made on their oldest 

 plantations, their new settlements breaking up ; 

 it became difficult and dangerous to cultivate 

 the lands, or to gather in the harvest : And to 

 all the miseries and calamities of war, were now 

 added the distresses of famine, to compleat their 

 catalogue of woes. Their Indian friends and 

 allies forsook them, and made peace with the 

 Iroquoise and English. Two only of the Tn- 

 cjian tribes adhered to the French in their ca- 

 lamity ; and these were too much dispirited, to 

 attempt any thing in their favor ; and it was 

 only in the cities of Quebeg. Trois Rivieres and 

 Montreal, that the inhabi-feats of the colony 

 found any safety: The savages knew not how 

 to approach, or to carry any fortified works ; 

 and the French availed themselves of this cir- 

 cumstance, till the affairs of the colony took a 

 different turn. 



While the Iroquoise had been carrying on 

 these measures against the French, a war had 

 broke out between the Abenaquies' and the 



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