anchored at Port Royal, a “Projet” was drawn up at Versailles for an attack on Boston, in which its defenceless state was described:— “La costé de Baston est peuplée, mais il n’y à aucun poste qui veille. Baston mesme est sans palissades à moins qu’on n’en ait mis depuis six mois. Il y a bien du peuple en cette colonie, mais assez difficile à rassembler. Monsieur Perrot connoist cette coste, et le Sieur de Villebon qui est à la Rochelle à present, avec le nommé La Motte,—tous le trois ont souvent esté à Baston et à Manat.... Par la carte suivante, on peut voir comme ce pays se trouve situé,” etc. The capture of Pemaquid in 1696 revived hopes in the French of making a successful descent upon Boston, and even upon New York. Several documents in reference to the scheme, and respecting in part Franquelin’s map of Boston, are in the _Mass. Archives; Documents Collected in France_, iv. 467, etc. This map is given in the _Memorial History of Boston_, vol. ii. p. li, from a copy made by Mr. Poore, and in Mr. Parkman’s manuscript collections. In the same place will be found accounts of earlier French maps of Boston (1692-1693), one of them by Franquelin, but both very inexact. The references on this projected inroad of the French are given by Parkman (_Frontenac_, p. 384), Shea (_Charlevoix_, v. 70), and Barry (_Massachusetts_, ii. 89, etc.). CHAPTER V. DISCOVERY ALONG THE GREAT LAKES. BY THE REV. EDWARD D. NEILL, A.B., ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA. _Corresponding Member Massachusetts Historical Society; Hon. Vice-President New England Historic Genealogical Society._ PURCHAS in his _Pilgrimage_ quaintly writes, that “the great river Canada hath, like an insatiable merchant, engrossed all these water commodities, so that other streames are in a manner but meere pedlers.”[438]