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this Expedition ; and perhaps we may come to fc£ 

 pent, tho' too late, of our complying with the Ad- 

 vice of fome Difturbers of the Publick Peace, who 

 project to enlarge their private Fortunes in a general 

 Commotion. Hay this down for an uncontefted 

 Truth, that we are not able to deftroy the Iroyuefe by 

 our felves : befides, what occalion have we to trou- 

 ble ^m, fince they give us no Provocation ? How- 

 ever, let the Event be what it will, I fhall not fail 

 ppon my Return to tranfmit you a Journal of our 

 Anions, unlefs it be, that I embarque for Rochl % 

 and deliver it jny felf : In the mean time, believa 

 me to be, 



SIR, 



Tours, &£. 



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LETTER XIIL 



Dated at Niagara, Aug. 2. 1687. 



Ueprefenting the unfavourable Ijfue of the Cam* 

 patgn made in the Iroqucfe Country; the Dis- 

 covery of an Amhufcade ; and the ijfuing of Or- 

 ders for the Author to march with a Detach* 

 went to the great Lakes. 



SIR, 



TT has been a Maxim in all Ages, That the Events 

 J. of things are not always anfwerable to Mens Ex- 

 pectations : When Men form to themfelves a promi- 

 fing profped of compaffing their Ends, they fre- 

 quently meet with the mortification of feeing them- 

 felves difappointed. This I fpeak by way of applica^ 

 tion to my felf 5 for inftead of going for France, pur- 

 -fuant to the Contents of the Letter I writ to you 



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