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I do myself the Honour to enclose you a Return of the Military Stores that were at Ticonderoga Landing and Crown point on the 2d Instant ー The Cannon Mortars and other Stores sent for by General Washington are happily arrived at Fort George, from whence they will be moved to the place of their Destination as soon as we are favoured with the Fall of Snow, and that the Ice in the River will be strong enough to bear the heavy Cannon.

A post which arrived here on the 18th and who left Montreal on the 4h brought me no Letters either from General Montgomerie or General Wooster I enquired of the Men who could inform me Nothing of the former but that he was gone towards Quebec ー The Frost here is so intense that the River is frozen over and I expect will be passable with Horses in a Day or two.