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and none amongft them being acquainted [95] but the 

 A /dens, who faid the Water in the River was very low; 

 fo that they could not get up to the Fort, and the Prifoner 

 Canton told the Commander, That what the Aldens faid 

 was true. So not being willing to make a Canada Expe- 

 dition, 2 "' 0 concluded it was not practicable to proceed. 

 Then ordered fome of the Forces to get the great Guns on 

 board the open Sloops, and the reft to rang the woods for 

 the Enemy, who took one Prifoner, and brought in; who 

 in their ranging found there a Shallop haul'd into a Crick, 

 and a day or two after there came in a Young Souldier to 

 our Forces, w r ho upon examination gave an account of 



hand a houfe of the like length and 

 breadth, built with hewn ftone and cov- 

 ered with lhingles, and above them 

 there is a chapel of about 6 paces long 

 and 4 paces broad; covered with lhin- 

 gles and built with terras, upon which 

 there is a fmall turret, wherein there is 

 a little bell, weighing about 18 lbs. 



" 2. Upon the left hand as we entered 

 into the Court, there is a magazine, hav- 

 ing 2 (lories built with ftone, and cov- 

 ered with lhingles, being in length 

 about 36 paces long, and 10 in breadth ; 

 which magazine is very old and wanted 

 much repair; under which is a little 

 cellar, in which there is a well; and 

 upon the other fide of faid court, being 

 on the right hand, there is a houfe of 

 the fame length and breadth the maga- 

 zine is, being half covered with lhin- 

 gles, and the reft uncovered and 

 wanting much repair; upon the ram- 

 parts of the faid fort are 12 iron guns, 

 weighing in all 21,122 lbs. 



"3. We do find in the faid fort 6 

 murtherers, without Chambers, weigh- 

 ing 1200 lbs. 



" 4. 200 iron bullets, from 3 to 8 lbs. 

 "5. About 30 or 40 paces from the 

 faid fort, there is a fmall outhoufe, 

 being about 20 paces in length, and 8 in 

 breadth; built with planks and half 

 covered with lhingles, which do not 

 ferve for any ufe but to houfe cattle. 



"6. About 50 paces from faid out- 

 houfe there is a fquare garden, enclofed 

 with rails, in which garden there are 

 50 or 60 trees bearing fruit. 

 " Signed, 



Le Chevalier de Grand Fontaine. 

 Jean Maillard. 

 Richard Walker. 

 Isaac Garner. 



Marshall, Sec'y." 

 [Haliburton's Hift. Nov. Scot, i: 66.] 



230 Sir William Phips's attack upon 

 Canada had inglorioufly failed in 1690, 

 partly becaufe of the latenefs of the 

 feafon at which it was undertaken, and 



