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they may flip thro' between the i (lands without: be?" 

 ing perceived. Morever, the lands about La Gar 

 lette are excellent, and for this reafon there mud al- 

 ways be plenty of provifions, which would fave a: 

 confiderable expence. Befides, a veflti m ; ght fail 

 from hence to Niagara in two days with a favour- 

 able wind. One of the objects m view, in build- 

 ing the fort of Cataracoui, was the commerce with 

 the Iroquois % but thofe Indians would as readily 

 come to La Galette as to Catarocoui. They would 

 indeed have a little farther to travel, but they would 

 fliun a paffage of eight or ten leagues crofs lake On- 

 tario : laftly, the fort at Galette would cover the 

 whole country lying between the river of the Outa- 

 wais and the river St. Lawrence for this country 

 cannot be attacked on the fide towards the river, by 

 reafon of the Rapides, and nothing is more eafy than 

 to defend the banks of the great river. I owe thefe 

 obfervations to a commifFary of the marine, who 

 was fent by the king in 1706 to vifit all the remote 

 parts of Canada* 



The fame day, the 3d of May, 1 advanced three 

 leagues, and arrived at the place called Aux Ceirm 

 This is the third fall or rapide^ and has taken its 

 name from the great number of cedars which were 

 formerly in this place : but they have fmce been 

 moflly cut down. On the 4th I could get no far-* 

 ther than to the fourth rapid,, called k Coteau de Lac, 

 tho' no more than two leagues and a half from the 

 proceeding, becaufe one of my canoes happened to 

 fplk near it. Your Grace will not be furprifed as 

 the frequency of thefe fhip wrecks, after you have 

 been informed of the conflrudtion of thefe diminitive 

 gondolas. I think I have already told you there are 

 two forts of them the one of the bark of elm, 

 wider, and of very coarfe workmanmip, but com- 

 T 3 monly 



