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wooden fortification formerly flood. We 

 arrived here fpme time before noon, and 

 reded a while. Colonel Lydius refided here 

 till the beginning of the lad war, chiefly 

 with a view of carrying on a greater trade 

 with the French Indians-, but during the 

 war, they burnt his houfe, and took his 

 fon prifoner. The fort was fituated on a 

 plain, but at prefent the place is all over- 

 grown with a thicket. It was built in the 

 year 1709, during the war which Queen 

 Anne carried on againft the French, and it 

 was named after the brave Evglifh general 

 Nicbolfon. It was not fo much a fort, as a 

 magazine to Fort Anne. In the year 171 1, 

 when the Englijh naval attempt upon Cana- 

 da mifcarried, the Englijh themfelves fet 

 lire to this place. The foil hereabouts 

 feems to be pretty fertile. The river Hud- 

 Jon paffed clofe by here. 



Some time in the afternoon, we conti- 

 nued our journey. We had hitherto followed 

 the eaftern more of the river Hudfon, and 

 gone a! mod due North •, but now we 

 left it, and went E. N. E. or N. E. acrofs 

 the woods, in order to come to the up- 

 per end of the river Woodcreck, which 

 flows to Fort St. Frederic, where we 

 might go in a boat from the former 

 pl^ce. The ground we paffed over this 



