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an Account, as he was going from Chkagouy which is at the 

 Bottom of Lake Michigan^ to Michillimakinac, he catered the JRi- 

 ^-er I am fpeaking of ; the Entrance of whicli was then at the 

 Ex tremity of the low Land, which I have faid we leave to 

 the Right at entering it. He fet up his A Ha r here, and faid 

 Mafs. After this, he went a little Diftance to return Thanks, 

 and prayed the two Men who managed his Canoe, to leave hifii 

 alone for half an Hour. This Time being expired, they went 

 to feek him, and were greatly furprifed to find liim dead ; but 

 they recolleded, that upon entering the River, he had faid that 

 he fhould finifh his Journey there. Neverthelefs, as it was too 

 far from thence to MichilUma^mac, to carry his Body thither, they 

 buried him pretty near the Side of the River ; which from that 

 Time has retired, as out of Refpedl, to the Cape, at the Foot of 

 which it now runs, and where it has made a new PaiTage. Th^a 

 Year following, one of the two Men who had performed the 

 laft Duties to this Servant of God, returned to the Place where 

 he had buried him, took up his Remains, and carried them to 

 Michillimakinac, I could not learn, or I have forgot, what Name 

 this River had before; but at prefent the Savages always call it 

 the River of the Black Go^jju (a). The i^r^/zc/^ have given it 

 the Name of Father Marquette ; and never fail to invoke him^ 

 when they li<nd themfeives in any Danger on the Lake Michigan. 

 Many have affirmed, that they believe it was owing to his Intei- 

 ceiGon, that they have efcaped very great Dangers. 



I went three Leagues further that Day, and encamped at the 



r^r- ^1 J J Entrance of the River St, Nicolas y on the Side 

 Of the red and ^ t t ^i ^ • i i - 



the ivhiie Pines. ^^.^ P""^"-^ ^''^^ \^^^r, but not \o 



wide as the former. I found here a gre^it 

 Number of red and white Pines, the lail have the hardeft Bark, 

 but the bed Wood, and ihed a Gum which is pretty fine; the, 

 firft have tlie fofteft Bark, but the V/ood is heavier. They draw 

 from thefe the Tar of which the beil Pitch is made. Tfaile^ 

 thus pleafantly to the River 6"/. Jofeph, which I entered the 6th, 

 very late, or the 7th very early in the Moming, for it was 

 about Midmght when we arrived here, having refted ourfelves 

 two good Hours at the Side of the Lake of La Riwre Nok>e 

 (the Black i^'^^r^, which is eight Leagues dillant, and wlierT© 

 there is a great deal of Gln-feng. 



The River St. Jojeph h d^bovQ a hundred Leagues long, .anf 

 AnMve72iureof Source is not far from L^ice Erie.: It is 

 the Author^s tn the 'f'^Zf^^^ eighty Leagues, and in the twenty. 

 i?;^.r St. Jofeph. \^%Leagues which I went up to amv^ at 

 ^ thei^ort, I faw.none but good Lands, co- 

 vered with Trees of a prodigious Height, under which /there 



f^J Thus the Savages call the Jefuits. They caii the Prisfts^ i\i^.mÀtt 

 Cape^ 5 and the Recollets^ the Grey Go^iijns, 



grows 



