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excellent, there is ground to hope it will very foon 

 be cleared. 



The channel which feparates the two iflands, bears 

 the name of the river of Meadows, as it runs be- 

 tween very fine ones. Its courfe is interrupted in 

 the middle by a rapid current, called the Fall of the 

 Recollet, in memory of a monk of that order 

 drowned in it. The religious of the feminary of 

 Montreal had, for a great while, an Indian miffion 

 in this place, which they have lately transported 

 fomewhere elfe. 



The third arm of the fiver is interfperfed with fo 

 prodigious a multitude of iflands, that there is al- 

 inoft as much land as water. This channel bears 

 the name of Milks Jfles, or the Thoujand Iflands, 

 or St. John's River. At the extremity of the Ifle 

 Jefus, is the fmall ifland I 9 Ifle Bizard^ from the 

 name of a Swifs officer, whofe property it was, and 

 who died a major of Montreal. A little higher to- 

 wards the fouth, you find the ifland Perrot, thus 

 termed from M. Perrot, who was the firfl governor 

 of Montreal, and the father of the countefs de la 

 Roche Al lard, and of the lady of the prefident Lubert. 

 This ifland is almofl: two leagues every way, and 

 the foil is excellent ; they are beginning to clear it. 

 The ifland Bizara terminates the lake of the two 

 mountains, as the ifland Perrot feparates it from that 

 of St. Louis. 



The lake of the two mountains is properly the 

 opening of the great river, otherwife called la Ri- 

 viere des OutaowGiSy into the St. Lawrence. It is 

 two leagues long, and almofl as many broad. That 

 of St. Louis is fomething larger, but is only a 

 widening of the river St. Laurence. Hitherto the 



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