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joy the fight of a rich country, magnificent forefts, 

 beautiful and fruitful hills ; you breathe the pureft 

 air, under the mildeft and mod temperate climate 

 imaginable, fituated between two lakes the leaft of 

 which * is two hundred and fifty leagues in cir- 

 cuit. • 



It is my opinion that had we the precaution to 

 make fure of a place of this confequence, by a good 

 fortrefs, and by a tolerable colony, all the forces of 

 the Iroquoife and Englifti conjoined, would not 

 have been able, at this time to drive us out of it, 

 and that we ourfelves would have been in a condi- 

 tion to give law to the former, and to hinder mofb 

 part of the Indians from carrying their furs to the 

 fecond, as they daily do with impunity. The com- 

 pany I found here with M. de Joncaire, was com- 

 pofed of the baron de Longueil, king's lieutenant 

 in Montreal +, the marquis de Cavagnal, fon of 

 the marquis de Vaudreuil, the prefent governor of 

 New-France ; M. de Senneville, captain, and the 

 Sieur de la Chauvignerie, enfign, and interpreter of 

 the Iroquoife language. Thefe gentlemen are about 

 negotiating an agreement of differences with the 

 canton of Onontague, and were ordered to vifit the 

 fettlement of the Sieur de Joncaire, with which they 

 were extremely well fatisfied. The Tfonnonthou- 

 ans renewed to them the promife they had for- 

 merly made them, to maintain it. This was done 

 in a council, in which Joncaire, as they told me, 

 fpoke with all the good fenfe of a Frenchman, 

 whereof he enjoys a large mare, and with the fufa- 

 limeft eloquence of an Iroquoife. 



* Lake Ontario. Lake Erie is three hundred leagues round, 

 f He died governor of this city- 



On 



