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lous of this independence. It was therefore necef- 

 fary to gain that of Tfonnonthouan, and the Eng- 

 lifti omitted nothing to accomplish it •, but they were 

 foon fenfible they (hould never be able to get Jon- 

 caire difmififed from Niagara. At laft they content- 

 ed themfelves with demanding, that, at leaft, they 

 might be permitted to have a cabin in the fame 

 place ; but this was likewife refufed them. " Our 

 country is in peace, faid the Tfonnonthouans, the 

 French and you will never be able to live together, 

 without railing disturbances. Moreover, added 

 they, it is of no confequence that Joncaire mould 

 remain here ; he is a child of the nation, he enjoys 

 his right which we are not at liberty to take from 

 him." 



No v, Madam, we muft acknowledge, that no- 

 thing but zeal for the publick good could poffibly 

 induce an officer to remain in fuch a country as this, 

 than which a wilder and more frightful is not to be 

 feen. On the one fide you fee juft under your feet, 

 and as it were at the bottom of an abyfs, a great 

 river, but which in this place is liker a torrent by 

 its rapidity, by the whirlpools formed by a thoufand 

 rocks, through which it with difficulty finds a paf- 

 fage, and by the foam with which it is always co- 

 vered ; on the other the view is confined by three 

 mountains placed one over the other, and whereof 

 the laft hides itfelf in the clouds. This would have 

 been a very proper fcene for the poets to make the 

 Titans attempt to fcale the heavens. In a word, 

 on whatever fide you turn your eyes, you difoover 

 nothing which does not infpire a fecret horror. 



You have, however, but a very fliort way to go, 

 to behold a very different profped. Behind thofe 

 uncultivated and uninhabitable mountains, you en- 

 joy 



