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Employed for some years on military and other
engineering works in Canada. In 1701 commenced a canal from Lachine to
the Little River, with the object of providing a boat channel around the
rapids. The work was abandoned, and resumed in 1717, but was again
abandoned, owing to the cost of the rock cutting. Accompanied Denonville
on his expedition against the Iroquois, in 1687.