294 une 1749. 



wooden fortification formerly flood. We 

 arrived here fome time before noon, and 

 refted 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 houie, and took his 

 fon priibner. The fort was fituated 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 againft the French* and it 

 was named after the brave Evgliflj general 

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

 magazine to Fort Anne. In the year 1711, 

 when the Englijh naval attempt upon Cana- 

 da mifcarriecU the Englijh thernfelves fet 

 fire to this place. The foil hereabouts 

 feems to be pretty fertile. The river Hud- 

 fon paffed clofe by here. 



SOME time in the afternoon, we conti- 

 nued our journey. We had hitherto followed 

 the eaftern fhore of the river Hudfon* and 

 gone almoft 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 

 Plight go in a boat from the former 

 place. The ground we paffed over this 



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