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'em, married very hahdfomly to Frenchmen, and had 

 good Dowries. He has never changed his Wife } 

 by which means he mean'd to give the Savages to 

 underftand, that God do's not love inconftant Folks. 

 ? Tis faid, that he indeavour'd to convert thefe poor 

 People, jbut his indeavours proved fuccefslefs j fothat 

 Ms in vain for thejefuks to preach up the Truths 

 of Chriftianity to 5 em ; though after all, thefe good 

 Fathers are not difcourag'd, nay, they think that 

 the adminiftring of Baptifm to a dying Child, is 

 worth ten times the pains and uneafinefs of living 

 among that People. 



PoruRoyal, the Capital or the only City of Aca- 

 dia y isin effed: no more than a little paultryTown, 

 that is fomewhat inlarg'd fince the War broke out in 

 1689. by the acceffionof the Inhabitants that liv'd 

 near Bofion } the Metropolitan of New-England. A great 

 many of thefe People retir'd to Port-Royal, upon 

 the apprehenfion that the Englijh would pillage 'em, 

 and carry 'em into their Country. Mr. de Mene- 

 <val furrendred this place to the Englijh^ as 1 faid be- 

 fore ; he could not maintain fuch a poft with the 

 handful of Men that he had, becaufe the Paliffadoes 

 were low, and out of order. He made a Capitula- 

 tion with the Commander of the Party that made 

 the Attack; but the Englijh Officer broke his word 

 to him, and us'd him both ignominioufly and 

 harfhly. Port- Royal is feated in the Latitude of 44 

 Degrees , and 40 Minutes, upon the edge of a 

 very fine Bafin , which is a League broad, and 

 two Leagues long, having at the entry about fix- 

 teen or eighteen fathom Water on one fide, and fix 

 or feven on the other ; for you muft know thatthq 

 Ifland call'd Fljle aux Chevres which (lands in thq 

 the middle, divides the Channel into two. There's 

 excellent anchorage all over the Bafin; and at the 

 bottom of it, there's a Cape or point of Land that 

 parts two Rivers, at which the tide rifts ten or 



