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 lafl war a great many French 

 families, efpecially old foldiers, have fettled 

 there ; but the king obliged them to go into 

 Canaddi 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 muiket-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 purpofc of a redoubt, and at the 

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

 non. Daring 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 

 Ejiglifi boats approached ; which could 

 not be done from the fort itfelf, and 

 which was a matter of great confequence, 

 as the Englijh might (if this guard had not 

 been placed here) have gone m their little 



boats 



