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paths leading to it from the woods, faid to 

 be made by beavers, and other animals, 

 which reforted here to drink. After go- 

 ing a little more than three Eng/i/h miles; 

 we came to a place, where a fire was yet 

 burning, and then we little thought that 

 we had narrowly efcaped death laft night, 

 as we heard this evening. Now and then 

 we met with feveral trees lying acrols the 

 river, and fome dykes of beavers, which 

 were troublefome to us. 



Towards night we met with a French 

 ferjeant, and fix French foldiers, who were 

 fent by the commander of Fort St. Frede- 

 ric, to accompany three EngHJhmen to Sa- 

 ratoga, and to defend them in cafe of ne- 

 eeffity, againil. fix French Indians, who 

 were gone to be revenged on the Eng/i/h s 

 for killing the brother of one of them in 

 the laft war. The peace was already con- 

 cluded at that time, but as it had not yet 

 been proclaimed in Canada, the Indians 

 thought they could take this ftep ; there- 

 fore they filently got away, contrary to the 

 order of the Governor of Montreal, and 

 went towards the EngHJh plantations. We 

 here had cccafion to admire the care of 

 Providence for us, in efcaping thefe bar- 

 barians. We found the grafs trod down all 

 the day along, but had no thoughts of dan- 



