Voyage du Sieur Franquet au port La Joye : au havre de St. Pierre, au port destrois Rivieres de l'Isle St. Jean, a la Baye Verte, a Beauséjour, au fort de Gasparéau sur le continent du Cánádá et au port Toulouze de l'Isle Royalle : avec des remarques sur les endroits de l'etat actuel des postes

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Voyage du Sieur Franquet au port La Joye : au havre de St. Pierre, au port destrois Rivieres de l'Isle St. Jean, a la Baye Verte, a Beauséjour, au fort de Gasparéau sur le continent du Cánádá et au port Toulouze de l'Isle Royalle : avec des remarques sur les endroits de l'etat actuel des postes qu'on y a etably, des forts qu'on y a construits, des augmentations dont ils sont susceptibles pour les meure en etat de deffense, de leux qu'on y projette et des avantages qu'on peut tirer de les differens etablissements. 1752.

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Unsigned copy, dated April 20, 1752 in Louisbourg, of Franquet's original account of his expedition to assess the fortifications of Isle Royale and Isle St. Jean between July 27 and Sept. 6, 1751.

[43] leaves, bound ; 33 cm. (fol.)

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