Niagara Falls 



1644-45 de sa Majeste. A Troyes, & A Paris, chez Denys Bechet, et 



Gendron Lovis Billaine, . . . MDCLX. Pp. 7-8. 



Colophon: Acheve d'imprimer a Albany, N. Y., par J. Munsell, ce 25 

 Aout, 1868. 



The extract quoted is from a letter written by Gendron in 1 644—45. 



Almost south of the Neuter Nation is a large lake, almost 200 

 leagues in circumference, called Erie, which is formed from 

 the discharge of the Fresh Water Sea (Lake Huron) and which 

 falls from a terrible height into a third lake called Ontario, which 

 we call Lake St. Louis. The spray of these waters rebounding 

 from the foot of certain large rocks in that place, forms a 

 stone, or rather a petrified salt, of a yellowish color and of admir- 

 able virtue for the curing of sores, fistules, and malign ulcers. 

 In this horrible place there dwell also certain savages who live 

 only on the elks, stags, wild cows, and other kinds of game which 

 the rapids carry along and cast among these rocks where they 

 (the savages) take them without hunting in larger numbers than 

 suffices for their needs and the entertainment of the travelers with 

 whom they deal in these Erie stones so called because of this 

 lake, so that they take them along and distribute them afterwards 

 among other nations. 



1647-48 

 1647-48 Ragueneau, Paul. Relation of what occurred in the mission of the 

 Ragueneau Fathers of the Society of Jesus in the Huron country in New France in 

 the years 1647 and 1648. Sent to Rev. Father Estienne Charlet, 

 Provincial of the Society of Jesus in the Province of France. By 

 Father Paul Ragueneau of the same Society, Superior to the Huron 

 mission. (Thwaites, Jesuit Relations, XXIII, p. 63.) 



The original is in French and word for word like the Gendron descrip- 

 tion quoted above. 



1653 

 1653 Bressani, Francesco Giuseppe. A brief account of certain mis- 

 Bressam s j ons Q f ^ Father of the Society of Jesus in New France, by Father 

 Francesco Giuseppe Bressani, of the same Society, to the most eminent 

 and reverend signor, Cardinal de Lugo. At Macerata, by the heirs of 

 Agostino Grisei. 1653. (Thwaites, Jesuit Relations, XXXVIII, pp. 

 235-237.) 



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