84 Auguft 1749. 



Jake this afternoon, but the next day we 

 met with fome. 



LATE in the evening we left lake 

 St. Pierre, and rowed up a little river 

 called Riviere de Loup, in order to come to 

 a houfe where we might pafs the night. 

 Having rowed about an Engtijh mile, we 

 found the country inhabited on both fides 

 of the river. Its fhores are high; but the 

 country in general is flat. We pafled the 

 night in a farm-houfe. The territory of 

 Montreal extends to this place; but here 

 begins the jurifdicftion of the governor of 

 Trois Rivieres, to which place they reckon 

 eight French miles from hence. 



Augiift the 3d. Ax five o'clock in the 

 morning we fet out again, and firft rowed 

 down the little river till we came into the 

 lake St. Pierre, which we went downwards. 

 After we had gone a good way, we per- 

 ceived a high chain of mountains in the 

 north-weft, which were very much ele- 

 vated above the low, flat country. The 

 north-weft fhore of lake St. Pierre was 

 now in general very clofely inhabited -, but 

 on the fouth-eaft fide we faw no houfes, 

 and only a country covered with woods, 

 which is fometimes faid to be under water, 

 but behind which there are, as I am told, 

 a great number of farms. Towards the 



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