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the War render'd the Country defblate; and in a 

 word, New-France had infallibly perifh'd, if this 

 Governour had not made that Peace with the Bar- 

 barians, that I fpoke of in my fifth Letter. The 

 bringing of that Peace to bear,was an adion of great- 

 er Importance, than you can well imagine; for thefe 

 Barbarians grounded all their Wars upon a perfonal 

 Enmity, whereas the European Ruptures depend more 

 upon Intereft than upon pure Revenge. 



Mr. de St. Valiers the Bifhop of Quebec, arriv'd 

 likewife on the 1 at the fame Port. He had 

 imbarqu'd ill the preceding Spring , on board of 

 a Bark that he had hir'd to tranfport him to Acadia, 

 to \ Newfoundland, and to the other Countries of his 

 Diocefs. Mr. de Frontenac our Governour, fet out 

 for Monreal in a Canow, four or five days after his 

 Arrival; and I had the honour to accompany him. 

 All Indeavours were us'd to diflwade him from un- 

 dertaking that Voyage, when the feafon was fo 

 cold, and fo far advanc'd ; For, as 1 informed you 

 before, the Ice is thicker and ftronger here in Oclob. 

 than 'tis at Varis in January ; which, is very ftrange. 

 Notwithftanding all the Remonftrances drawn from 

 the Hardfhips and Inconveniences of the Voyage, 

 he flighted the Fatigues of the Water, and threw him- 

 felt into a Canow in the fixty eighth year of his 

 his Age. Nay, he took the abdication of Fort Fron- 

 tenac fo much to Heart, that he had gone ftraight 

 thither, if the Nobility, the Priefts, and the Inha- 

 bitants of Monreal, had not intreated him with joynt 

 Supplications, not to expofe his Perfon to the dan- 

 ger of the Falls and Catarads that lie in that Paf- 

 fage. In the mean time fome Gentlemen of Cana- 

 da, followed by a hundred Coureurs de Bois, under 

 the command of Mr. Mantet, ventured upon the 

 Voyage, with intent to learn the State of the Fort. 

 I acquainted you in my laft Letter, that Mr. de VaU 

 ?ene$ h^d blown up the Wglls of the fmt, when 



