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v/xxh branches of trees. In other places 

 oppofite, it was fometinnes two fathoai 

 deep. 



In the evening, about fun fet, we arrived 

 at fort Sf. yearly or St. yoh.ny having h^d a 

 continual change of rain, fun-(hine, wind, 

 and calm, all the afternoon. 



July xht 2\{}i. St. John is a woodeni 

 fort, which the French built in 1748, on 

 the weftern (hoxc of the mouth of lake 

 Champlainy clofe to the water-iide. It 

 was intended to cover the country round 

 about it, which they were then going to 

 people, and to fcrve as a magazine for pre- 

 viiions and ammunition, which were ufually 

 fent from Montreal to fort St. Frederic ; 

 becaufe they may go in yachts from hence 

 to the lad mentioned place, which is im- 

 pofTible lower down, as about two gun- 

 lliot further, there is a flmllow fuli of 

 ftones, and very rapid water in the river, 

 over which they can only pals in batcniix, or 

 flat veiTcls. Formerly fort CJuiniblan, which 

 lies four French miles lower, was the maga- 

 zine of provifions ; but as they were forced 

 firil to fend them hither in batenio:, and 

 then from hence in yachts, and the road 

 to fort Chamblan from Montreal being by 

 land, and much round about, this fori was 

 eredled. It has a low fiiuatiun, and lies 



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