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brain of this perfon, who was inceflantly recom- 

 mending to him to put his trull in the Lord. He 

 was of opinion, that if truft in God was fufficient 

 to make him difcover a mine there was no neceffity 

 of going to Anticofli to find it, fo that he returned 

 as he came. The coafts of this ifland are abun- 

 dantly well (locked with fifh ; I am notwithftand- 

 ing of opinion, that the heirs of the Sieur Joliet, 

 would willingly exchange their immenfe lordfhip for 

 the fmalleft fief in France. 



After having paffed this ifland you have the 

 pleafure of always being between two fhores, and 

 to make fure of the progrefs you have made ; but 

 there is a neceffity of ufmg much precaution in fail- 

 ing on this great river. On Thurfday the third, we 

 left on the larboard fide the Mounts Notre Dame and 

 Mount Louys this is a chain of very high moun- 

 tains •, between which there are feveral vallies, which 

 were formerly inhabited by Indians. In the neigh- 

 bourhood of Mount Lewis, there are even very 

 good lands, and on them feveral French plantations. 

 A very advantageous fettlement might be made 

 here for the fifhery, efpecially the whale- fifhery, 

 and it would alfo be of ufe to the fhips which come 

 from France ; they might there find refrefliments of 

 which they are fometimes in extreme want. In 

 the night following, the wind encreafed, and 

 had very near done us an ill turn. We were no 

 great way from Trinity-point, which we were to 

 leave on our left, but our pilots did not believe 

 themfelves fo near it •, and they even imagined they 

 had given it a fufficient birth fo as to have nothing 

 to fear from it. Monfieur de Voutron darting up 

 from his deep called out to bear away. Had this 

 order been poftponed but for one quarter of an 

 hour, the fhip muft have been dafhed to pieces up- 

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