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that did great fervice in promoting the Commerce. 

 Then the Court of France repented, though too 

 late, that they did not give ear to their Memorials ; 

 and finding no other remedy, refolv'd to diflodge 

 the EngUJh at any rate. In effect, they attack'd 'em 

 vigoroufly by Sea and Land, and difpoffefs'd 'em of 

 all their Forts, excepting Fort Nelfin, where they 

 could not expeft fuch an eafie Conqueft. Some 

 years after, the Englijh refolv'd to ufe their utmoft 

 efforts to retake thefe Pofts; and their refolution 

 was crowned with Succefs, for they diflodg'd the 

 French in their turn, and at this day the French are 

 making preparations to repay 'em in their own 

 Coin. 



That Country is fo cold for feven or eight Months 

 of the year, that the Sea freezes ten Foot deep^ 

 the Trees and the very Stones fplit,the Snow is ten or 

 twelve Foot deep upon the Ground, for above fix 

 Months of the year, and during that feafon, no 

 body can ftir out of Doors, /without running the 

 rifque of having their Nofe, Ear? and Feet mortifi- 

 ed by the Cold. The paffage from Europe to that. 

 Country is fo difficult and dangerous, by reafon of 

 the Ice and the Currents, that one muft be reduced to 

 the laft degree of jrnfery, or be blind to a foolijh 

 heighth, that undertakes fuch a wretched Voyage. 



'Tis now time to pafs from Hudfons Bay, to the 

 Superior or Upper Lake. 'Tis eafier to make this 

 Voyage upon Paper, than to go a&ually through 

 ic ; for you muft fail almoft a hundred Leagues up 

 the River of Machakandibi, which is fo rapid and 

 full of Catara&s, that a light Canow work'd by 

 fix Watermen, fhall not fail 'em under thirty or 

 thirty five days. At the head of this River we meet 

 with a little Lake of the fame name, from whence 

 we are obliged to a Land carriage of feven Leagues, 

 to get at theflRAver of Mkhiflkoton, which we run 

 down in tenor twelve days, though at the fame 



