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the River St. Laurence, and that you would be very 

 glad to have as exacft an account of the whole Coun- 

 try oi Canada. lean fcarce fatisfie your defire at 

 prefent, becaufe I have not yet had time to fort all 

 my Memoirs, and therefore you muft not take it 

 amifs, that I pray you to fufpend your curiofity for 

 fome time. In the mean time, here follows the 

 Relation of fome things that happened in Canada^ 

 which may „ be acceptable to you. 



Immediately after the Ships parted from Quebec 

 the laft year, Mr. Frontenac ordered a Plan to be 

 drawn of a Wall to encompafs the City, and ha- 

 ving tranfported thither all the Materials neceffary 

 for building fome Redoubts of Stone, he took care 

 to fomfte it during the Summer. Some days agoe 

 a Gentleman of New-England call'd Nelfon , was 

 brought prifoner to Quebec, who was taken in the 

 River of Kenebeki^on the Coaft of Acadia, together 

 with three Ships belonging to him, and becaufe he 

 was a very gallant Man, Mr. Frontenac gave him a 

 Lodging at his own Houfe, and treated him with 

 all manner of Civility. About the beginning of 

 this year, this Govcrnour gave the command of a 

 Party confifling of 150 Soldiers, to Chevalier Beau* 

 tour, with whom fifty of the Savages that were our 

 Friends were joyn'd, in order to march on the 

 Ice towards Fort Frontenac. About thirty or forty 

 Leagues from Mowed, they met a Company of fix- 

 ty Iroquefe, who were difcover'd by the Foot-fteps 

 of fome of their Hunters, that had ftragled out of 

 their Cottages, and the next day they were all fur- 

 phVd, and either had their Throats cut, or were 

 made Prifoners. The Sieur de la Plant e who liv'd 

 in Slavery with thefe Wretches, had the good for- 

 tune to be prefenr in their Company when they 

 were defeated, and he had certainly been kill'd [ with 

 his Matters, if he had not cry'd out with all his; 

 Might, Stare me, I am a Frenchman J He was one of 



