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full of trees fallen acrols, or drove on heaps 
by the torrents. The town in its prelent Hate 
is about 2 or 3 miles long, yet the fcattered 
cabins on both Tides the water, are not above 
40 in number, many of them hold 1 families, 
but all Hand fingle, and rarely above 4 or j 
near one another ; lb that the whole town is a 
ftrange mixture of cabins, interfperfed vvithgreat 
patches of high grals, bulhes and fhrubs, lome 
of peale, corn and fquafhes, lime-ftone bottom 
compoled of foffils and lea fhells. 
It leems however, to have been more con- 
fiderable when it became a conqueft to the 
arms of Lewis 14th, at which time it muft 
have been more com pad, for hiftory relates 
it to have been llockadoed. The Count k 
Frontenac governor of Canada , at the head 
of the moft numerous army the French ever 
drew together in N. America , had the fatis- 
faction in 1696 of triumphing over the alhesof 
Onondago , whole inhabitants terrified with 
what they had heard of bombs, and generally 
unwilling to hazard a fet battle, had already 
abandoned their houfes after letting them afire, 
whatever glory the grand monarque might 
reap from this exploit, it is certain he gain- 
ed no other advantage, as a longer Hay 
muft have inevitably ftarved the army, fo its 
precipitate retreat helped our Indians to an 
opportunity of taking their revenge by cutting 
