beginning to be appreciated by
the settlers. On the second floor
of the mill was a room intended
to be fitted up and set apart for
religious services. A stone build-
ing was also erected with a roof
of thatched straw for use as the |p
company’s store-house. These |@%
were all contained within the[f
walls of the fort, while clustered |i}
beneath outside the walls were |r
the homes of the people. 4 f
During the first year of Min-|_G@*
uit’s régime there were exported IN
to Holland furs to the value of \
nineteen thousand dollars, a state SN ~Y)
of affairs which should have be- |X
tokened well for the future suc- INV@
cess of the Director’s administra- INV
tion.

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