Tra^VcIs in North Âmerkûé t i<j 



they told me they were Huars^ a kind. or C or7no rants ; they added- 

 that thefe Cries were a certain Sign of Wind the next Day, which 

 proved true. 



The llxth I paiïed the Ghefnaux du Lac, they call thus foih^^ 

 . jj CdnaJ:^ which form a o-rcat Number of 



Other i^ahs. lHands, that almoft cove^ the River in thië 



Place. I never faw a Country more charming, and the Lahdâ 



appear good. The reil of the Day we employed in paffing thé 



Falls, the moft confiderable of which they call Ùi^ Moulinet \ it is 



frightful to lopk at, and we had a great deal of Trouble tô gèÉ 



îhro' \%M I went however that Day near feven LeagueSj and Î 



encamped at the Bottomof the Long Fall | this is al'orrent half % 



League long, which the Canoes cannot go up but with half theii:^ 



Loading ; we palled it at feven in the Morning, then we failed 



till three o'clock in the Afternoon ; but then the Rain obliged 



us to encamp, and detained us all the next Day : There fell thê 



eighth a little Snow, and at Night it froze as it does in Franct 



the Month of jan, we were neverthelefs under the fame Parai-- 



lels as Languedoc. The ninth we paiTed the Flat Fall, about feveft 



Leagues dillant from the Long Fall, and five from the Galot's^^ 



which is the laA of the Falls.- La Galeiteis a League and a half 



farther, and we arrived there the tenth. I could not fufficiently 



admire the Country v/hich is between this Bay and les Gaiots-^ it 



is impoffible to fee finer Forefls^ and Î obferved efpecially fonli^ 



Oaks of an extraordinary Height. 



Five or fix Leagues from la G^lette^ there is an îflànd called, 



ra J Tomhata^ the Soil of which appears prettV 

 Of the IJiaiid ^^^^.^^ ^^.^j^ ^^^^^ ^ 



ûmhata. \ox^^. An hoquolsf whom' they call the 



^^r, I know not why, a very fenfi^ble Man^ and w^ell affeded té» 

 the French^ obtained the Domain of it from the late Cou7it dè 

 Fronteiiac^ and he ihew&the W riting" ôf this Grant to any one that 

 will fee it ; he has neverîhelefs fold the Lordfhip,. for four Pots 

 of Brandy ; but has referved to himfelf ^11 other Profits of the 

 Land, and has afTembled here eighteen or twenty Families of hiâ 

 Nation. I arrived the twelvth in his Ifiand, and I paid him â 

 Vifit ; I found him working in his Garden, which is not tii^ 

 Cuflom of the Savages ; but he afteéls all the Manners of thô 

 Frejîch : He received me very well, and would treat me, but tha 

 Finenefs of the V/eather obliged me to go forward ; I toc^k my 

 Leave of him, and v/ent to pafs the Night two Leagues further,* 

 in a very fine Place. I had ftill thirteen Leagues to CatctrticoUt i 

 the Weather was fine, the Night very clear, and this engag'd u§ 

 to embark at three in the Morning. We palled thro' thé midit 

 of a Kind of Archipelago, which they call Milk IJles, (the Fhoufahd 

 IJlesy) and I bçlieve tkere are above five hundred : When we are 



