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man in Canada, becaufe annually feveral 

 Frenchmen are killed on their expeditions, 

 which they undertake for the fake of trad- 

 ing with the Indians. 



A WINDMILL,, built of ftone, ftands on 

 the eaft fide of the lake on a projecting 

 piece of ground. Some Frenchmen have 

 lived near it ; but they left it when the 

 war broke out, and are not yet come back 

 to it. From this mill to fort St. John they 

 reckon eight French miles. The EngHJh, 

 with their Indians, have burnt the houfes 

 here feveral limes, but the mill remained 

 unhurt. 



THE yacht which we went in to St. 

 John was the firft that was built here, and 

 employed on lake Ghamplain, for formerly 

 they made ufe of bateaux to fend pro- 

 vifions over the lake. The Captain of 

 the yacht was a Frenchman, born in this 

 country; he had built it, and taken the 

 foundings of the lake, in order to find out 

 the true road, between fort St. John and 

 fort St. Frederic. Oppofite the windmill 

 the lake is about three fathoms deep, but 

 it grows more and more mallow, the nearer 

 it comes to fort St. John. 



WE now perceived houfes on the fhore 

 again. The captain had otter-fkins in the 

 cabin, which were perfectly the fame, in 



colour 



