16')7-1866.] INDIAN LORETTE. 433 



the St. Charles foams, white as a snow-drift, over 

 the black ledges, and where the sunlight struggles 

 through matted boughs of the pine and fir, to bask 

 for brief moments on the mossy rocks or flash on 

 the hurrying waters. On a plateau beside the tor- 

 rent, another chapel was built to Our Lady, and 

 another Huron town sprang up ; and here, to this 

 day, the tourist finds the remnant of a lost people, 

 harmless weavers of baskets and sewers of mocca- 

 sins, the Huron blood fast bleaching out of them, 

 as, with every generation, they mingle and fade 

 away in the French population around.^ 



1 An interesting account of a visit to Indian Lorette in 1721 will be 

 found in the Journal Historiqm of Charlevoix. Kalm, in his Travels in 

 North America, describes its condition in 1749. See also Le Beau, Aven- 

 tures, I. 103 ; who, however, can hardlj be regarded as an authoritj. 



