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This place is at present in no state of Defence, the French having Neglected from their Imaginary Security to pay the least Attention to Fortifying it, & suffered the Inhabitants to build their Houses upon the low Ground near the Common, which is liable to be overflowed Every Spring, rather than take advantage of the high Situation upon which part of the Town is built, whereas they might have secured to themselves at a very little Expence, Safe & convenient Magazines for Stores & Provisions, which the equal Distance from Quebec & Montreal, & the proximity to the Iron Mines & Forges that lay behind this Town seem to have pointed out.