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added, that they had feen large ftiips at its mouth. 

 It appears befides, that the AfTmiboils are the fame 

 people who in the old maps are marked uncle* the 

 name of Poualaks, and of whom fome accounts 

 fay, that their country is contiguous to that of the 

 Chriftinaux or Killiftirtons. 



The Algonquin and Huron languages fhare be- 

 twixt them aim oil all the Indian nations of Canada, 

 with whom we have any commerce. A perfon well 

 acquainted with both might travel over above fif- 

 teen hundred leagues of a country without an in- 

 terpreter, and make himfetf under Pcood by above 

 a hundred different nations , who have each of them 

 their peculiar language. The Algonquin particu- 

 larly has a prodigious extent. It begins at Aca- 

 dia and the gulph of St.. Laurence, and makes a 

 circuit of twelve hundred leagues, turning from 

 the fouth eaft by the north to the fouth-weft. It is 

 even faid, that the -Makingans or Wolves, and the 

 greater! part of the Indians of New- England and 

 Virginia fpeak dialects of this language. 



The Abenaquis, or Conihas bordering upon New- 

 England, have, for their nearer! neighbours the 

 EtecheminS) or Maledtes in the country about the 

 river Pentagoet, and further to the eaft are the Mic- 

 tnaks or Souriquci:^ whofe country is properly Ac- 

 cadia, all along the coaft of the gulph of St. Lau- 

 rence as far as Gafpey, whence a certain author has 

 called them Gafpiftans^ as well as the neighbour- 

 ing iflands. Going up the river St. Laurence, you 

 do not meet with any Indian nations at prefent till 

 you come to Saguenay. Yet when Canada was dif- 

 covered and fome years afterwards, feveral Indian 

 nations v/ere found in that territory, which fpread 

 themfelves over the ifland of Anticofti, towards the 



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