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with branches of trees. In other places 

 oppofite, it was fometimes two fathom 

 deep. 



IN the evening, about fun fet, we arrived 

 at fort St. yean, or St. yohn, having had a 

 continual change of rain, fun-ihine, wind, 

 and calm, all the afternoon. 



Jufy the 2 1 ft. ST. Jo/m is a wooden 

 fort, which the French built in 1748, on 

 the weftern fhore of the mouth of lake 

 Champlain, clofe to the water-fide. It 

 was intended to cover the country round 

 about it, which they were then going to 

 people, and to fcrve as a magazine for prc- 

 viiions and ammunition, which were ufually 

 fent from Montreal to fort St. Frederic ; 

 becaufe they may go in yachts from hence 

 to the laft mentioned place, which is im- 

 poffible lower down, as about two gun- 

 mot further, there is a (hallow full of 

 ftones, and very rapid water in the river, 

 over which they can only pafs in bateaux, or 

 flat veflels. Formerly fort Chamblan* which 

 lies four French miles lower, was the maga- 

 zine of provifio-ns ; but as they were forced 

 fir ft to fend them hither in bateaux, and 

 then from hence in yachts, and the road 

 to fort Chamblan from Montreal being by 

 land, and much round about, this, fort was 

 eredtcd. It has a low fiiuation, and lies 



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