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sent over to be employed on the lake. It was 

 found impossible to c6nvey them up the foils of 

 Ghambly, and no othei* . way remained but to 

 take them in pieces, and in that form to carrj-- 

 them over the rapids, and then put them together 

 again. A gondola, weighing thirty tojis, thirty 

 long boats, a number of flat bottomed boats, and 

 four hunctred batteaux, had also been dragged up 

 the rapids. At length in the beginning of Oc- 

 tober, the British fleet were prepared to enter 

 the lake. This ftedt consisted of the Inflexiblcj 

 which had b6en re-constructed at St. Johns, in 

 twenty eight d^lys from the time of laying her 

 keel ; and mounted eighteen twelve pounders ; 

 the schooner Maria, mounting fourteen six 

 pounders .; ttie ' Carletdb , carry ing twelve * six" 

 pounders ; the Thunderer, a flat bottomed ra- 

 ^eaii, with' six" tv/enty' four pounders, and. six 

 twelve pounders, besides two howitzers ; some 

 gondolas, navmg seven nine pounders ; twenty 

 gun boats, carrying each a brass fi'e.ld piece:, 

 from nine to twenty four' pounders, and some 

 with howitzers ; and four long boats, with each 

 a carriage gun, serving as armed tenders. These,' 

 amounting to thirty one in number, werie allde-. 

 signed apd prepared for attack and battle ; and 

 were t6 be followed with a vast number of ves- 

 sels, batfeaiix and' boatis, consitructed for the 

 transportation of the royal army, ^ with its stores, 

 artilleiy, baggage and provisions.^ 



The armament was conducted by captain' 

 Pringle, and the fleet navigated by seven hun^' 

 dred prime seamen, of whom tv/o hundred were, 

 "/olunteers from the transports. Having rivalled" 



♦ Gordon. V©1. II, p. 14^.- * 



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