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politenefs, heaped obligations upon us, and 

 treated us with as much civility as if we 

 had been his relations. I had the honor 

 of eating at his table during my flay here, 

 and my fervant was allowed to eat with his. 

 We had our room!?', &c. to ourfelves, and 

 at our departure the governor fupplied us 

 with ample provifions for our journey to 

 fort St. John. In fhort, he did us more 

 favours than we could have expected from 

 our own countrymen, and the officers were 

 likewife particularly obliging to us. 



ABOUT eleven o'clock in the morning 

 we fet out, with a fair wind. On both 

 fides of the lake are high chains of moun- 

 tains ; with the difference which I have 

 before obferved, that on the eaftern fhore, 

 is a low piece of ground covered with 

 a foreft, extending between twelve and 

 eighteen Englifo miles, after which the 

 mountains begin ; and the country behind 

 them belongs to New England. This chain 

 confifts of high mountains, which are to be 

 confidered as the boundaries between the 

 French and Englifh pcffeffions in thefe parts 

 of North America. On the vveftern fhore 

 of the lake, the mountains reach quite to 

 the water fide. The lake at fir ft is but a 

 French mile broad, but always encreafes 

 afterwards. The country is inhabited 



within 



