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a very great mountain, that is tilled round about, 

 very fertile, on the top of which you may see very 

 far. We named it Mount Royal. The City of 

 Hochelaga is round compassed about with timber, 

 with three courses of rampires (stockades), one 

 within another, framed like a sharp spire, but 

 laid across above. The middle most of them is 

 made and built as a direct line, but perpendicular. 

 The rampires are framed and fashioned with 

 pieces of timber laid along on the ground, very 

 well and cunningly joined together after their 

 fashion. This enclosure is in height about two 

 rods. It hath but one gate of entry thereat, 

 which is shut with piles, stakes, and bars. Over 

 it and also in many places of the wall there be 

 places to run along and ladders to get up, all full 

 of stones for the defense of it. 



&quot;There are in the town about fifty houses, 

 about fifty paces long, and twelve or fifteen broad, 

 built all of wood, covered over with the bark of 

 the wood as broad as any board, very finely and 

 cunningly joined together. Within the said 

 houses there are many rooms, lodgings and 

 chambers. In the midst of every one there is a 

 great court in the middle whereof they make their 

 fire.&quot; 



The races whose representatives tendered this Linguistic 

 delightful reception to the first white men who 

 ascended Canada s noblest river, were divided, Race 

 linguistically, into ten or a dozen stems. Of 

 these we are concerned with nine. 



The Iroquois included a number of tribes 



