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The fécond Village is called de la Montagne, (of the Mountain) 



, J . becaufe it was a long Time on the Mountain 

 Of the iroc^MOis ^^j^-^j^ ^^^^ ^j^^ ^^^^ ^j^^ j^^^^^ j^^^ 



f>f the Mountain. ^^^^^ ^^^^ removed to the Recollet's Fall, as I 

 faid before. It is now on the Continent, over-againft the Weft 

 End of the IHand. It is governed by the Ecclefiafcics of thè Se- 

 minary of Montreal, Thefe two Villages have produced many 

 brave Men, and their Fervour in Religion was admirable before 

 the Avarice of our Traders had introduced Drunkennefs, which 

 has made ftill greater Ruin here than in the Miffions of *S*/. Fran- 

 cois and Beckancourt, 



The Mifiionaries have in vain employed all their Induilry and 



y.,^ , Vigilance to put a Stop to this Diforder. It 



^Drforders occa^ was to no Furpofe that they called in the 

 fmiea by the Brandy ^^.^ -^^ ^^^^ Magiftrates, threatened the 

 T^-ade m thefe invo ^^^^ Heaven, and offered the moft per- 

 ViUages. fuafive Reafons : All fignilied nothing. Even 



the moft fatal Accidents, in which the Hand of GOD evidently 

 appeared heavy on the Authors of this Evil, have not been fufii- 

 cient to open the Eyes of feme ChriJIians, whom a Thiril af- 

 ter fordid Gain hath blinded. One fees even in the Squares 

 and Streets of Montreal, the moil frightful Spedacies, the certain 

 Confequences of the Drunkennefs of thefe Barbarians : Huf- 

 bands and Wives, Fathers, Mothers and their Children ; 

 Brothers and Sifters, taking each other by the Throat, tearing 

 off each other's Ears, and biting one another like furious Wolves. 

 The Air refounds in the Night with Hov/lings, more horrible 

 than thofe which the wild Beails make in the Woods. 



Thofe who have moft to reproach themfelves with for thefe 

 horrible Diforders, are the firft to afk, lit thefe People are Chrif 

 tians ? We may anfwer them,, Yes, they are Chriftians, and new 

 Converts, who know not what they do : But thofe who cooly, 

 and knowing the certain Effed, bring them by their Avarice to 

 this Condition, have they any Religion ? They know that the 

 Savages would give all they have for a Glafs of Brandy : This 

 is a Temptation to the Traders ; againft which, neither the Cries 

 of the Paftors, nor the Zeal and Authority of the Magiftrates, 

 nor Refpeél of the Laws, nor the Severity of the Sovereign Ju- 

 rifdidion nor the Fear of GOD's Judgments, nor the Thoughts 

 of Hell, (a Reprefentation of which is feen in the Drunkennefs of 



thefe Savages) have been able to reftrain them. But let us 



turn away our Eyes from thefe difagreeable Obje6ls. 



The great Trade for Skins, after the Town of Trois Rivieres 

 was no longer frequented by the Nations of the North, and Weft, 

 was carried on feveral Years at Montreal, whither the Savages re- 

 forted at certain Seafons from all Parts of Canada* This was a 



Kind 



