36 July 1749' 



on all fides towards the land, beyond a 

 cannon-fhot from the fort, but among them 

 are fome which are as high as the walls of 

 the fort, and very near them. 



THE foil about fort St. Frederic is faid 

 to be very fertile, on both fides of the river; 

 and before the laft war a great many French 

 families, efpecially old foldiers, have fettled 

 there ; but the king obliged them to go into 

 Canada, or to fettle clofe to the fort, and 

 to ly in it at night. A great number of 

 them returned at this time, and it was 

 thought that about forty or fifty families 

 would go to fettle here this autumn. With- 

 in one or two mufket-fliots to the eaft of 

 the fort, is a wind-mill, built of ftone with 

 very thick walls, and moft of the flour 

 which is wanted to fupply the fort is ground 

 here. This wind-mill is fo contrived, as to 

 ferve the purpofe of a redoubt, and at the 

 top of it are five or fix fniall pieces of can- 

 non. During the laft war, there was a 

 number of foldiers quartered in this mill, 

 becaufe they could from thence look a great 

 way up the river, and obferve whether the 

 Englijh boats approached ; which could 

 not be done from the fort itfelf, and 

 which was a matter of great confequence, 

 as the Englifo might (if this guard had not 

 been placed here) have gone in their little 



boats 



