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A half-century of conflict. France and England in North America. Part ...

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254 FORT MASSACHUSETTS. [1746."River <strong>of</strong> Saratoga," <strong>and</strong> some branches <strong>of</strong> WoodCreek, they reached the place where they had lefttheir canoes, <strong>and</strong> found them safe. Rigaud says :" Igave leave to the Indians, at their request, to cont<strong>in</strong>uetheir fight<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> ravag<strong>in</strong>g, <strong>in</strong> small parties,towards Albany, Schenectady, Deerfield, Saratoga,or wherever they pleased, <strong>and</strong> I even gave them afew <strong>of</strong>ficers <strong>and</strong> cadets to lead them." These smallventures were more or less successful, <strong>and</strong> produced,<strong>in</strong> due time, a good return <strong>of</strong> scalps.The ma<strong>in</strong> body, now afloat aga<strong>in</strong>, sailed <strong>and</strong>paddled northward till they reached Crown Po<strong>in</strong>t.Rigaud rejoiced at f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g a haven <strong>of</strong> refuge, for hiswounded arm was greatly <strong>in</strong>flamed ": <strong>and</strong> it was timeI should reach a place <strong>of</strong> repose." He <strong>and</strong> liis menencamped by the fort <strong>and</strong> rema<strong>in</strong>ed there for sometime. An epidemic, apparently like that at FortMassachusetts, had broken out among them, <strong>and</strong>great numbers were seriously ill.Norton was lodged <strong>in</strong> a French house on the eastside <strong>of</strong> the lake, at what is now called ChimneyPo<strong>in</strong>t; <strong>and</strong> one day his guardian, De Muy, eitherth<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g to impress him with the strength <strong>of</strong> theplace, or Avith an amus<strong>in</strong>g confidence <strong>in</strong> the m<strong>in</strong>ister's<strong>in</strong>capacity for mak<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>convenient military observations,<strong>in</strong>vited him to visit the fort. He accepted the<strong>in</strong>vitation, crossed over with the courteous <strong>of</strong>ficer,<strong>and</strong> reports the ramparts to have been twenty feetthick, about twenty feet high, <strong>and</strong> mounted withabove twenty cannon. The octagonal tower which

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