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and ten broad. In former times, Ottawas, of the nations Talon and 

 Sable, dwelt io it; but the dread they were under, on account of the 

 Iroquois, obliged both them and their neighbours to retire to Mlchili- 

 mackinac. That part of the continent that faces this island is inhabited 

 by the Nockes and Mississagues, in two different villages, which are 

 twenty leagues distant the one from the other. Towards the east end 

 of this island we fall in with French KlVer, which I took notice of in 

 my sixteenth letter. It is as broad as the Seine at Paris, and runs not 

 above forty leagues in length from its source in the Lake Nipissing to 

 its mouth. To the north-east of this river there lies the Bay of Toronto, 

 which is twenty or five-and-twenty leagues long, and fifteen broad at its 

 mouth. This bay receives a river that springs from a little lake of the 

 same name, and forms several cataracts that are equally impracticable 

 both upon the ascent and descent. Upon the side of this river you will 

 see a man's head marked in my map, which signifies a large village of 

 the Hurons, that was destroyed by the Iroquois. You may go from 

 the source of this river to the lake Frontenac, by making a land carriage 

 to the river of Tanaouate [the Humber], that falls into that lake. 

 Upon the south side of the Bay of Toronto you will see the fort called 

 the Fort Suppose, which I mentioned in my twenty-third letter; and 

 about thirty leagues to the southward of that, you find the country of 

 the Theonontate, which, being formerly inhabited by the Hurons, was 

 entirely depopulated by the Iroquois." 



And again, after describing Lake Erie, and coming to Lake Fronte- 

 nac, he repeats his information in regard to the route from that lake to 

 Lake Huron : " On the north side," he says, " we meet with several 

 little gulfs. You may go from this lake to that of the Hurons by going 

 up the river Tanaouate [the Humber], from whence you have a land 

 carriage of sis, of eight leagues to the river of Toronto [the Severn]." 



