42 ^Jidy 1749. 



man in Canada, becaufe annually feveral 

 Frenchmen are killed on their expeditions, 

 which they undertake for the Take of trad- 

 ing with the hidians. 



A WINDMILL, built of {lone, ftands on 

 the eaffc fide of the lake on a projed:ing 

 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 Englifi, 

 with tlieir Indians, have burnt the houfes 

 here feveral times, 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 Champlaitiy 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. yohn and 

 fort St. Frederic. Oppofite the windmill 

 the lake is about three fathoms deep, but 

 it grows more and more fhallow, the nearer 

 it comes to fort St. yohn. 



We now perceived houfes on the fhore 

 again. The captain had otter-fkins in the 

 cabin, which were perfedly the fame, in j 



colour 



