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Between ^ehec and Mcmreal, towards T rois Rivieres^ we meet 

 ftilivvith {ovci^ Algonquins y but who do not make a Village, and v/ho 

 trade with the French, At our firft Arrival here, this Nation oc- 

 cupied all the Northern Side of the River from ^ebec (where 

 M. ds Champlaiji found them fettled, and made an Alliance with 

 them) up to the Lake 6*/. Pierre. 



• From the Ifle of Montreal^ going towards the North, we meet 

 Of t^e W on ^'^^^^ fome Villages of NipiJJtngSy of Tmif- 

 , / / n )■ earnings y of Tetes de Boules ^ ( Round Heads ) of 

 qums, the u uta- j,^;^,^^^^^^ and of Outaouais (a). The firft are 

 AW r Ai on-"^ ^""^^ Algonquins, and who have alone pre- 



'g-^^^ gon- ferved the Algonquin Language, without any 

 'i''^"'- Alteration : They have given their Name to 



a little Lake iituated between Lake Huron and the River of thç 

 Outaouais. The Temifcamings occupy the Borders of another 

 little Lake, which bears their Name, and which appears to be 

 the real Source of the River Outaouais. The Round Heads are 

 not far oiF : Their Name comes from the Shape of their Heads : 

 They think a round Head to be a great Beauty ; and it is very 

 probable that the Mothers give this Shape to the Heads of their 

 Children in their Infancy. The Amikoues, which they call alfa 

 the Nation of the Bea<vers, are reduced almoll: to nothing : The 

 Remains of them are found in the Mand Manitoualin^ which is 

 in the Lake Huron, towards the North. The Outaoûais, for- 

 rnerly very numerous, were fettled on the Borders of the great 

 River which bears their Name, and of which they pretended to 

 be Lords. I know but of three Villages of this Nation, and 

 thofe but thinly peopled, which I fhall fpeak of hereafter. 



Between Lake Huron and the upper Lake in the Streight it- 

 felf, by which the fécond flows into the firft, is a Torrent, or Fall, 

 which is called Saulte Sainte Marie, (the Fall St. Mary. J Its En- 

 virons v/ere formerly inhabited by Savages who came from the 

 South Side of the upper Lake, whom they call Saulteurs ; that 

 is TO s AY, the Inhabitants of the Fall. They have probably given 

 them this Name, to fave the Trouble of pronouncing their true 

 Name ; which it is not polTible to do, without taking Breath 

 two or three Times (b). There is no Nation fettled (at leail 

 that I know of) on the Borders of the upper Lake ; but in the 

 Polls which we pofTefs there, we trade with the Criftinaux, who 

 come here from the North Eaft, and who belong to the Algonquin 

 Tongue, and with the AJJiniboils, who are to the North Weft*. 



( a) Many write and pronounce Outmuaks^ 

 (h ) P auoirigouelouhak. . 



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