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full of trees fallen acrofs, or drove on heaps 
by the torrents. The town in its prefent ftate 
is about 2 or 3 miles long, yet the fcattered 
cabins on both fides the water, are not above 
40 in number, many of them hold 2 families, 
but all ftand fingle, and rarely above 4 or 5 
near one another; fo that the whole town is a 
ftrange mixture of cabins, interfperfed with great 
patches of high grafs, bufhes and fhrubs, fome 
of peafe, corn and fquafhes, lime-ftone bottom 
compofed of foffils and fea fhells. 
It feems 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 compact, for hiftory relates 
it to have been ftockadoed. The Count de 
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 afhes of 
Onondago , whofe inhabitants terrified with 
what they had heard of bombs, and generally 
unwilling to hazard a fet battle, had already 
abandoned their houfes after fetting them afire. 
Whatever glory the grand monarque might 
reap from this exploit, it is certain he gain- 
ed no other advantage, as a longer ftay 
muft have inevitably ftarved the army, fo its 
precipitate retreat helped our Indians to an 
opportunity of taking their revenge by cutting 
