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The Aïgo7tquin and Huron Languages have between them almoft 

 th Feotk Savage Nations of Canada that we 



f th Afp-onauin acquainted with. Whoever fhould well 

 y ^ S ^ underlland both, might travel without an In- 

 ■^anguage. terpreter above one thoufand five hundred 



Leagues of Country, and make himfelf undcrftood by one hun- 

 dred different Nations, who have each their peculiar Tongue. 

 The Algonquin efpecially has a vaft Extent : It begins at Acadia 

 and the Gulf of St. Laurencsy and takes a Compafs of twelve 

 hundred Leagues, twining from the South Eafl by the North to 

 the South Well. They fiy alfo, that the l^Folf Nation, or the 

 Mahingatn^ and the greateft Part of the Indians of Ne^ England 

 and Virginia y {ft^l^ Algonquin Dialeds. 



Thç^ Algonquins y ov Canihas, who are Neighbours to Ne^-w Eng^ 

 Of the Aben-^ Icind^ have for their nearefl Neighbours the 

 ms Nations an'd ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Malecites, about the River Pen- 

 qms a ions, an f^ç^oet ; and more to the Eaft are the Micmaks. 



^ or Souriquois, wJiole proper or Native Country 

 is Acadia, the Continuance of the Coail of 

 the Gulf of St, Laurence^ up to Ga/pê, (from whence one Writer 

 Galls them Gofpefians) and the neighbouring Illands. In going 

 up the River St. Laurence, we meet with at prefent no Savage 

 Nation, till we come to Saguenay. Neverthelefs, when Canada 

 was firft difcovered, and many Years afterwards, they reckoned 

 in this Space many Nations, which fpread tliemfelves in the 

 If] and Anticofk, towards the Hills of Nctre-dame, and along the 

 North Side of the River. Thofe which the antient Relations 

 "fpeak moft of, are the Berjlamttes, the Papinachois, and the Mon- 

 tagnez. They call them alfo (efpecially the lail) the lo^er Al- 

 gonquins, becaufe they inhabited the lower Part of the River 

 with 'Kd^tdi to Quebec, But the greatefl Part of the others are 

 jreduced to fome Families, which we meet with fometimes in one 

 Place, and fometimes in another. 



There were fbme Savages who came down into the Colony 

 Of the Sa^a es -^^^^ North, fometimes by Saguenay, and 

 cf the North "^^^ ^ oftener by Trois Rivieres, of whom we have 

 * heard nothing for a long Time. There were 



amongfl others the Altikameques : Thefe Savages came from far, 

 and their Country was furrounded by many other Nations, w^ho 

 extended themfelves about the Lake St. John, and to the Lake's 

 of the MiJlaJJim and Nemifeau. They have been almoll: all de- 

 llroyed by the Sword of the Iroquois, or by Diftempers that were 

 the Confequence of the Sufferings to which the Fear of thefe 

 Barbarians reduced them. This is a great Lofs : They had no 

 Vices ; they were of a very mild Difpofition, cafily converted, 

 and very affedionate to the Frmch, 



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