The nearest _French_ Forts or Settlements to _Albany_, are _Chambly_ and _Monreal_, both of them lying about North and by East from _Albany_, and are near two hundred Miles distant from it. _Quebeck_ lies about three hundred and eighty Miles North-East from _Albany_. So far is it from being true, that the Five Nations are situated upon the Banks of the _River St. Lawrence_, opposite to _Quebeck_, that _Albany_ lies almost directly between _Quebeck_ and the _Five Nations_. And to say that these _Indians_ cannot come to trade at _Albany_, but by going down the _River St. Lawrence_, and then into a _Lake_ eighteen Leagues from _Albany_ (we suppose they mean _Lake Champlain_) passing by the _French_ Forts, is to the same Purpose as if they should say, that one cannot go from _London_ to _Bristol_, but by Way of _Edinburgh_.
Before we go on to observe other Particulars, we beg Leave further to remark, that it is so far from being true, that the _Indians_ in the _French_ Interest, lie between _New-York_ and our _Five Nations of Indians_, that some of our Nations of _Indians_ lie between the _French_ and the _Indians_, from whence the _French_ bring the far greatest Quantity of their Furs: For the _Sennekas_ (whom the _French_ call _Sonontouons_) are situated between _Lake Erie_ and _Cataraqui Lake_, (called by the _French Ontario_) near the great Fall of _Jagara_, by which all the _Indians_ that live round _Lake Erie_, round the Lake of the _Hurons_, round the Lake of the _Illenois_, or _Michegan_, and round the great _Upper Lake_, generally pass in their Way to _Canada_. All the _Indians_ situated upon the Branches of the _Misissippi_, must likewise pass by the same Place, if they go to _Canada_. And all of them likewise in their Way to _Canada_, pass by our Trading-Place upon the _Cataraqui Lake_, at the Mouth of the _Onondaga River_. The nearest and safest Way of carrying Goods upon the _Cataraqui Lake_ towards _Canada_, being along the South-side of that Lake, (near where our _Indians_ are settled, and our Trade of late is fixed) and not by the North-side and _Cataraqui_, or _Frontinac Fort_, where the _French_ are settled.
Now that we have represented to your Excellency, that not one Word of the Geography of these Merchants is true, upon which all their Reasoning is founded, it might seem needless to trouble your Excellency with any further Remarks, were it not to show with what earnestness they are promoting the _French Interest_, to the Prejudice of all his Majesty's Colonies in _North America_, and that they are not ashamed of asserting any Thing for that End, even in the Royal Presence.