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The Lake Michigan^ wliich is almoft parallel with Lake 'flu.^ 

 Of fj P te- ^'^^^ which it diicharges it.felf, and which 



/ 5 " is feparated from it bat by a Peninfula one 



ouatamis, ana ],,^ndred Leagues long, which ^rows nar- 

 ether Sa^^ages of continually towards the Nonh, has few • 



tûe hay. Inhabitants on its Banks. I do not know 



even that any Nation was ever fettled here, and it is without any' 

 Foundation called in many Maps the Lake of the Ilinois, In 

 goâng up the River St, Jo/ephy which runs into it, we find two 

 Villages of different Nations, which came from other Parts not 

 long fince. This Lake has on the Weft Side a great Bay, v/hich 

 extends twenty-eight Leagues to the South, and which is called 

 the Bay des Pua7tjfov fimply, the Bay. Its Entrance is very wide^ 

 and full of Iflands, fome of which are fifteen or twenty Leagues 

 in Compafs. They were formerly inhabited by the Poutccuata- 

 mis, whofe Name they bear, excepting fome which we leave to 

 the Right, where there are Itill fome Savages called Nvquets. The' 

 Pouiecuatamis ipoiï'efs atprefent one of the fmalleil of thefe lilands ; 

 and they have befides two other Villages^ one in the River St, 

 yo/eph, and another in the Straight. In the Bottom of the Bay 

 there are fome Sabs and Otchagras, Thefe laft are called Puans^ 

 (ftinking)y but for what P^eafcn I know not. Before we come to 

 them, we leave upon the Right another little Nation, called Mah 

 homines , F dies A-uoines, ( ^.L-ihl Oats, ) 



A little River, much ru filed with Torrents, difcharges itfelf 

 > ^ into the Bottom of the Bay : It is known by 



• r^^c t-^e Name of the River des Renards, (of the 



mis, Maicou- ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ Country is very beautiful 



tins, and the J<.i- ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^.^^ extends from 



capons. g^^^,^ ^.^^^ ^j^^ ^r;.^^^..^ 



notwithftanding only inhabited by two little Nations, which 

 are the Kicapcus and the Mafcoutins, Some of our Geographer^ 

 have been pleafed to call the laft the Nation of Fire,- and their 

 Country the Land cf Fire, An equivocal \Vord gave Rife to 

 this Name. 



Fifty Ytars ago^ the Miamis were fettled at the South End of 



T y.n' ' the Lake Michigan, in a Place called Chicagou^ 

 OftheMi^mis ^^^^^^.^^^ ^^^^J^.^^ ^^^^ ^ ^.^^^^ 



and the liinois. ^j^.^^^ ^^^^^^ j^^^ g^^.^^ 



which is not far from that of the Ilinois, They are at prefent 

 iîivided into three Villages, one of which is on the River St, ja~ 

 Jephy the fécond on another River which bears their Name, and 

 runs into Lake Erie^ and the third upon the River Guahache^ 

 which mm into the MiJ/iffippi. Thefe iafl: are m.ore known by 

 the Name of Ouyatancns. There is fcarce any Doubt but that this 

 Nation and the llinoisys^it:^ not long fince, one People,, confider- 



