to North- America.' t j l 



fe&, is all I can fay of him. 'Tis none of my bu- 

 finefs to meddle with an infinity of Affairs, that re- 

 late to the Gentleman's private Intereft. As to the 

 queftion, whether he has managed well or ill, du- 

 ring the courfe of his Government, or whether he 

 was lov'd or hated, I know nothing of the matter. 

 I am at a lofs to know whether he kept a good or 

 a forry Table, for indeed I was never at it. Adieu. 



I make account to fet out for Rochel, when the 

 VelTel that brings our new Governour, returns for 

 France. I am, 



flf^i':/ LSii % fe SIR* $ i j 



Tours, &c. 



LETTER XVIII. 



Dated at Quebec November 15% 1689, 



(jiving an Account of Mr. de FrontenacV Arrh 

 val 9 his Reception, his Voyage to Monreal, 

 and the repairing of Fort Frontenac. 



TH E Intelligence you give me of the adjudging 

 of the Lands of Lahontan, would have drove 

 me to defpair; if you had not affur'd me at the 

 fame time, that I might recover it after a Century 

 of years, ( if I had the misfortune to live fo long ) 

 upon the condition of reimburfing to the Poffef- 

 four, the Sum that he pay d for it, and of proving 

 that I was a&ually in the Kings Service in the re- 

 mote parts of the World, when that Eftate was 

 (bid. To fpeak to the purpofe, Mr. de Frontenac has 



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