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rock of a fine white, -loofe, femi-opaque 

 fpar. In fome places of the river are pieces 

 of rock as big as houfes, which had rolled 

 from the mountains in fpring. The places 

 they formerly occupied are plainly to be 

 feen. 



IN feveral places, they have eel-traps in 

 the river, like thofe I have before de- 

 fcribed -J-. 



By way of amufement, I wrote down a 

 few Algonkin words, which I learnt from a 

 Jefuit who has been a long time among 

 the Algonkms, They call water^mukuman ; 

 the head, ujiigon , the heart, uta, the body, 

 veetras ; the foot, ukhlta > a little boat, 

 ujh > a fhip, nabikoan ; fire, Jkute ; hay, 

 majkaofee, the hare, whabus , (they have a 

 verb, which expreffes the a6lion of hunt- 

 ing hares, derived from the noun) ; the 

 marten, whabiftanis ; the elk, moofu * (but 

 fo that the final u is hardly pronounced) \ the 



f See p. 92. of this volume. 



* The famous mocfe-detr is accordingly nothing but an 

 c!k ; for no one can deny the derivation of moofe-deer from 

 mooju. Considering especially, that before the Iroquefe or 

 Five Nations grew to that power, which they at prefent have 

 all over North-America, the Algonkins were then the leading 

 nation among the Indians, and their language was of courfe 

 then a moil univerfal language over the greater part of 

 North-America ; and though they have been very nearly de- 

 ftroyed by the lr.oqu-fe t their language is ftill more univerfal 

 in Canada^ than any of the reft. F. 



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