Sent a letter home
by Mr Dix. . . . This morning struck our tents, & decampt at revaloe
beating, then march down to ye battoes & imbarqud for Ticondaroga. The wind
blowing hard a head, we put a shore at a small distance from ye fort on ye east
side ye lake; the wind abateing, we set off & came to the first narrows on
a small island & stopt to cook, haveing come 12 miles. The land on each
side is exceeding mountainous, & abounds with vast number of rattlesnakes;
our people killd 6 or 8 on this small island. Then put of, as soon as the rear
came up & refresh themselves, to another island near Sabbath Day Point,
& campt.
SOURCE: Samuel
Jenks, Diary of Captain Samuel Jenks
During the French and Indian War, 1760, p. 5
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