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them fays prayers in private as Coon as he 

 gets up. At fort St. Frederic all the foldiers 

 affembled together for morning and even- 

 ing prayers. The only fault was, that 

 moil: of the prayers were read in Latin, 

 which a great part of the people do not 

 underftand. Below the aforementioned 

 wind-mill, the breadth of the lake is about 

 a muiket-fliot, and it looks more like a 

 river thin a lake. The country on both 

 fides is low and flat, and covered with 

 woods. We faw at firfl: a few fcattered 

 cottages along the fhore; but a little fur- 

 ther, the country is inhabited without in- 

 terruption. The lake is here from fix to 

 \zx\ foot deep, and forms feveral iflands. 

 During the whole courfe of this voyage, 

 the fuuation of the lake was always diredlv 

 from S.S. W. to N.N.E. 



In fome parts of Canada are great trads 

 of land belonging to fingle perfons ; from 

 thefe lands, pieces, of forty Arpens long, 

 and four wide, are allotted to each dif- 

 charged foldier, who intends to fettle here ; 

 but after his houfliold is eftablidied, he is 

 obliged to pay the owner of the lands fix 

 FrencJi Francs annually. 



The lake was now fo fliallow in feveral 

 places, that we were obliged to trace the 

 way for the yacht^ by founding the depth 



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