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lutius : ac si ars, ut in Gallia, ceteraque Europa, accederet, haud temere cer- 
taret cum Baiis. Pratum ingens cingit undique silva caedua ad ripam Lacus 
Gaunentaz, quo nationes quatuor principes Iroqui totius regionis tanquam 
ad centrum navigiolis confluere perfacile queant, et unde vicissim facillimus 
aditus sit ad eorum singulas, per amnes lacusque circumfluentes—Ferine 
copia certat cum copia piscium, atque ut ne desit quidquam, turtures eo 
undique sub veris initium convolant, tanto numero, ut reti capiantur, piscium 
quidem certe vis tanta, ut piscatores esse ferantur, qui intra unius noctis 
spatium anguillas ad mille singuli hamo capiant—Pratum intersecant fontes 
duo, centum prope passus alter ab altero dissiti: alterius aqua salsa, salis op- 
timi copiam subministrat—alterius lympha dulcis ad potionem est; et quod 
mirere uterque ex uno eodemque colle scaturit.”” It appears from Charle- 
voix’s History of New France that missionaries were sent to Onondaga in 
1654—that they built a chapel and made a settlement—that a French colony 
was established there under the auspices of Le Sieur Dupuys, in 1656, and 
retired in 1658—and that the missionaries finally abandoned the country in 
1668.—When La Salle started from Canada, and went down the Mississippi 
in 1679, he discovered a large plain between the lake of the Hurons and 
that of the Illinois on which was a fine settlement belonging to the Jesuits. 
The traditions of the Indians agree in some measure with the French re-~ 
lations. ‘They represent that their forefathers had several bloody battles 
with the French, and finally compelled them to abandon the country—that 
the French, after being driven from their last fortress, capitulated and agreed 
to depart on being furnished with provisions—that the. Indians filled their 
bags with ashes covered with corn, and that the greater part of the French 
in consequence fell victims to famine at a place called by them “ Anse de 
famine”—and by us ‘ Hungry Bay,” on Lake Ontario. There is a hill in 
Pompey which the Indians will not visit, and which they call Bloody. Hill. 
It is surprising that no old Indian weapons, such as stone-knives, axes, and 
arrow-heads, are found in this country. It appears that they were super- 
seded by French substitutes of iron. 
