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politenefs, heaped obligations upon us, and 

 treated us with as much civihty as if we 

 had been his relations. I had the honor 

 of eating at his tabls during my flay here, 

 and my fervant was allowed to eat with his. 

 "We had our rooms, &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 expe(fled 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 (lisore, 

 is a low piece of ground covered with 

 a foreft, extending between twelve and 

 eighteen EfigliJJj 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 

 coniidered as the boundaries between the 

 Fre?jch and Englijh pcffeffions in thcfe parts 

 oi North America. On the weftern fliore 

 of the lake, the mountains reach quite to 

 the water fide. The lake at firft is but a 

 French mile broad, but always encreafes 

 afterwards. The country is inhabited 



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