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Tein-deer, attickw, the moufe, mawkuljis. 

 The Jefiiit who told me thofe particulars, 

 likewife informed me, that he had great 

 reafon to believe, that, if any Indimis 

 here owed their origin to T^atariciy he 

 thought the Algonkins certainly did; for 

 their language is univerfally fpoken in that 

 -^2^x10^ Noi'th- America, which lies far to the 

 weft o^ Canada, towards y^JIa. 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 Algonkin from to go upon dry 

 land, to go upon the mountains, &c. 



Late at night we arrived at Terre d' E- 

 boulement, which is twenty-two French 

 miles from ^lebec, and the laft cultivated 

 place on the weftern fliore of the river St. 

 Lawrence. The country lower down is 

 (aid to be i^ mountainous, that no body can 

 live in it, there not being a fingle fpot of 

 ground, which could be tilled. A little 

 church, belonging to this place, ftands on 

 the fliore, 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 Englijh call butter-nut-trees ; 

 but they are looked upon as great rarities, 



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