J 12 Mifcellamiz Curiofa. Vol. III. 



Mr. John Clayton^ Redor of 

 Crofton^f Wakefield^ his Let^ 

 ter to the Royal Society^ giving 

 a farther jiccount of the Soil^ 

 and other OlfervaMes of Vir-* 

 ginia, 



I Shall here prefent you with a continuati- 

 on of my Remarks on the River, Soil, 

 and Plants of Virginia, And firfl:, as to 

 the River on the other fide the Mountains^ 

 faid to Ebb and Flov/. I have been afTured 

 by Col. Bird^ who is one of the Intelligent- 

 eft Gentlemen in all Virginia^ and knows 

 more of Jndim Affairs than any Man in 

 the Country, that it was a Miftake; for 

 that it muft run into a Lake^ now called 

 yjuoke Tetite^ which is frefh Water ; for fince 

 that time a Colony of the French are come 

 down from Canada^ and have feated them- 

 felves on the back of Virginia^ where Fd- 

 lam and the reft fuppos'd there might be 

 a Bay, but is a Lake, to which they 

 have given the Name of Lake Petite^ there 

 being feveral larger Lakes 'twixt that and 

 Canada.. The Fr^^c/? poITeffing themfelvesof 

 thefe Lakes, no doubt will in fiiort time be 

 abfolute Maftersof the Beaver Trade, the 

 gveateft number of Beavers being catch'd 



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