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LETTER IX. 



Ofjort Chambly, with the fjloes, birds* and 

 fever al animals peculiar to Canada. Of trees 

 common to it with France, and of fuch as are , 

 peculiar to this country, 



Chambly, April 11, 1721. 



Madam, 



ON E of the principal fecurities and bulwarks 

 of Montreal againft the Iroquois and New- 

 York, is the fort of Chambly, from which I now 

 have the honour to write you. I came here to pay 

 a vifit to the commandant, who is M. de Sabrevois, 

 one of the bed families of Beauce, and my friend, 

 fellow-pafTenger, and a good officer, I am going in 

 two words to give you the fituation and defcription 

 of this important place. 



In the firft years of our fettling in this country, 

 the Iroquois, that they might make incurfions even 

 as far as the center of our plantations, came down 

 a river which empties itfelf into the St. Lawrence, 

 a little above St. Peter, and which had for this rea- 

 fon given it the name of the River of the Iroquois. 

 It has been fince called Richelieu River, on account 



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