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Fort Du Quesne considerably & indeed it is a question with
me whether the heavy Rains which the General says have
lately fallen will not raise the Waters of the Yogyoganv or
Monongahela too high for Carriages to pass or Men to ford it.
Nor is it uncommon by what I can learn for Snow to fall on
the Allegany Mountains & beyond them in the Month of
Novemr I hope however that that will not be the Case this
Season but that I shall yet have an opportunity before the End
of the Year of Congratulating your Ldp on the Reduction of
Fort Du Quesne upon which Event the Security of these
Colonies do in a great Measure depend & it is much doubted
whether the two Neighbouring ones, Pensa in particular will
be prevailed on if this Expedition proves unsuccessful to
make another Effort.
[Sharpe to Calvert.]
3d of Novr 1758. transmitted by Capt Lee, a Duplicate by
Capt Johnston.
Sir
Herewith I send you Copies of the Depositions which Mr
Ridout transmitted when I was at Fort Cumberland relative
to the Passage of some Vessels thro the Sounds or Thorow-
fares that divide Taylors & Iames's Islands from the Main
Land which are all the Depositions that can be procured con-
cerning that matter. I likewise send you Copies of the lour-
nals of the Proceedings in the late Lower House from the
time they first met to their Dissolution & you will also receive
Copies of the several Acts of Assembly that were made at the
last Session. I find you have been informed by Mr Ridout
that agreeable to what I wrote you from Fort Frederick the
28th of Augst I marched thence the 8th of Septr with upwards
of 200 Voluntiers to garrison Fort Cumberland & thereby
enable General Forbes to strengthen the Rear of his Army
with all the Virginia Forces; You may be assured I was
extreemly sorry to learn upon my Arrival there that whatever
the General might have promised himself when he gave me
reason to believe he would move from Raes Town about the
Middle of Septr there was not the least probability of his
leaving it in a month or six weeks from that time by reason
that his Magazines were almost exhausted & it was very diffi-
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