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rein -deer, attickii; the moufe, mawituljis. 

 The Jefuit who told me thofe particulars, 

 likewife informed me, that he had great 

 reafon to believe, that, if any Indians 

 here owed their origin to 'Tataruiy he 

 thought the Algonklns certainly did ; for 

 their language is univerfally fpoken in that 

 part of North- America, which lies far to the 

 weft of Canada, towards AJia. It is faid to 

 be a very copious language ; as for example, 

 the verb to go upon the ice, is entirely diffe- 

 rent in the Algonkln from to go upon dry 

 land, to go upon the mountains, &c. 



LATE at night we arrived at Terrc d'E- 

 boulementy which is twenty-two French 

 miles from Quebec, and the laft cultivated 

 place on the weftern more of the river St. 

 Lawrence. The country lower down is 

 faid to be fo mountainous, that no body can 

 live in it, there not being a {ingle fpot of 

 ground, which could be tilled. A little 

 church, belonging to this place, ftands on 

 the more, near the water. 



No walnut-trees grow near this village, 

 nor are there any kinds of them further 

 north of this place. At bay St. Paul, there 

 are two or three walnut-trees of that fpecies 

 which the Englffi call butter-nut-trees ; 

 but they are looked upon as great rarities, 



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