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French colony reached no further to the weftward ; 

 but they begin to make new plantations higher up 

 the river, and the foil is every where excellent. 



What has been the prefervation, or at lead the 

 fafety of Montreal, and all the country round it dur- 

 ing the lad wars, is two villages of Iroquois Chrift- 

 ians, and the fort of Chambly. The fird of thefe 

 villages is that of Sault St. Lewis, fituated on the 

 Continent, on the fouth-fide of the river, and three 

 leagues above Montreal. It is very populous, and 

 has ever been looked upon as one of our drongeft 

 barriers againft the idolatrous Iroquois, and the Eng- 

 lilh of New- York. It has already changed its fitua- 

 tion twice within the fpace of two leagues. Its fe- 

 cond dation, when I faw it in 1708, was near 

 a rapid dream, called Sauk St- Lewis ^ which name 

 it dill retains though at a confiderable didance from 

 it. It appears to have entirely fixed at laft ^ for 

 the church which they are juft about to finim, and 

 the miffionaries houfe are each in their own kind 

 two of the fined edifices in all Canada the fitua- 

 tion of them is charming. The river which is 

 very broad in this place is embellifhed with feveral 

 iflands, which have a very pleafant afpecl. The 

 ifland of Montreal is well docked with inhabitants, 

 forms the view on one hand, and the fight has no 

 bounds on the other fide, except lake St. Louis, 

 which begins a little above this. 



The fecond village bears the name of la Montaigne, 

 having been for a long time fituated on the double- 

 headed mountain, which has given its name to the 

 ifland. It has fince been tranflated to the fall of the 

 Kecollet, as I have already told you \ it now ftands 

 on the Terra Firma oppofite to the wedern extre- 

 mity of the ifland. The ecclefiadicks of the femi- 



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