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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3each side of the main road. In the Richelieu near where the Bleuri tails into it, is Isle aux Noix, formerly the property of the late General Christie, but now belonging to the Crown; it is a flat, but a little above the level of the river, containing altogether only eighty-five acres, ly- ing ten miles and a bjalf from the boundary-line, in an excellent situation to intercept the whole communication by water from Lake Cham plain 3 consequently a most important military station, that has been fortified with all the care its commanding position deserves. At the west end of it the principal work is an irregular fort, very well constructed, and of great strength, surrounded by a ditch, and mounted with guns of large calibre; in advance of this, at a short distance, are two other forts of less extent, but proportionately strong, with ditches round them also; besides these there are several block-houses at the different points that could be deemed assailable by an enterprising enemy. In 1814 the island was further strengthened by a boom extended across the river, and a line of gunboats moored in a direction that their fire might completely enfilade the whole passage; by these means it was always safe, from attack, even if the enemy should have an unopposed force on the lake. At the east end of the fort is a slip for N building ships, and from thence the Confiance of 32 guns was launched. Beaujeu, or La Colle (the seigniory of), on the west side of the river Richelieu, in the county of Huntingdon, bounded by De Lery on the north, the state of Vermont on the south, and the township of Hemiliingford in the rear; extends two leagues along the river in front by three deep: it was granted March 22, 1743, to Daniel Lumard de Beaujeu, and is now the property of General Christie Burton. Towards the fr...
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