a fortress belonging to the British, seated on the S.W. of Hudson's bay. W. Long. 84. 20. N. Lat. 53. 20.

a town of North America, the capital of one of the ten counties of the province of New-York, which goes by the same name, is a well-built place, conferring the country. Here the sachems, or the kings of the Five Nations of Iroquois, met the governors of the British plantations, when they entered into any treaty with them. W. Long. 44. 29. N. Lat. 42. 30.