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Montreal, and went as much due weft as 

 they could, on account of the lakes, ri- 

 vers, and mountains, which fell in their 

 way. As they came far into the country, 

 beyond many nations, they fometimes met 

 with large traces of land, free from wood, 

 but covered with a kind of very tall grafs, 

 for the fpace of fome days journey. Many 

 of thefe fields were every where covered 

 with furrows, as if they had been ploughed 

 and fown formerly. It is to be obierved, 

 that the nations, which now inhabit North' 

 America, could not cultivate the land in 

 this manner, becaufe they never made ufe 

 of horfes, oxen, ploughs, or any inftru- 

 ments of hufbandry, nor had they ever feen a 

 plough before the Europeans came to them. 

 In two or three places, at a confiderable 

 diftance from each other, our travellers 

 met with impreffions of the feet of 

 grown people and children, in a rock; but 

 this feems to have been no more than a 

 Lufus Natura. When they came far to 

 the weft, where, to the beft of their know- 

 ledge, no Frenchmen, or European, had 

 ever been, they found in one place in the 

 woods, and again on a large plain,* great 

 pillars of ftone, leaning upon each other. 

 The pillars confided of one fingle ftone 

 each, and the Frenchmen could not but 



fuppofe, 



