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Wand, where we remained five days. Here we~ 

 wanted for nothing, but at the expiration of this 

 time we had a mind to try whether we mould be 

 able to find, as we had been made to hope, land- 

 winds on the north more, which might carry us into 

 the high tides. 



We therefore came to an anchor at Moulin Baude\ 

 this traverfe is five leagues. On my arrival 1 afked 

 to fee this mill, and was fhewn fome rocks from 

 which iffues a fmall rill of chryfcal water, fufficient 

 at leaft to make a mill go there is, however, no 

 likelihood of a mill ever being built here. There 

 is not, perhaps, in the whole world a more uninha- 

 bitable country than this. The Saguenay lies fome- 

 what higher ; this is a river capable of carrying the 

 larger! (hips twenty-five leagues above its mouth. 

 Entering this river you leave on the right hand the 

 port of TadoufTac, where moft part of our geogra- 

 phers have placed a city ; but there never was more 

 than one French houfe in it, with fome huts of 

 Indians that came here in trading time, and who 

 afterwards carried their huts away with them as 

 they do with the booths of a fair. This is what 

 conftituted the whole of the city. 



It is true that this port was for a long time the 

 refort of all the Indian nations of the north and 

 eaft ; that the French repaired thither as foon as 

 the navigation was open, whether from France or 

 from Canada ; and laftly, that the miftionaries pro- 

 fiting of this opportunity, came thither to negoti- 

 ate in quality of factors for the kingdom of hea- 

 ven. The fair being ended, the merchants return- 

 ed to their own homes, the Indians took the road 

 of their forefls or villages, and the labourers in the 

 harv-ft of the gofpel followed thefe latter to culti- 

 vate 



