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From the ifland of Montreal, always taking i. 

 north courfe, you find a few villages of the Nipif- 

 fings, the T emif earnings ^ the Teles de Boufe, or Round- 

 heads, the Amikoues, and Outaways. The nrft, 

 who were the true Algonquins, and have alone 

 preferved the Algonquin language in its purity, have 

 given their name to a fmall lake lying between Lake 

 Huron, and the river of the Outaways. The Te- 

 mifcamings poffefs the banks of another fmall lake, 

 which likewife bears their name, and feems to be 

 the true fource of the river of the Outaways. The 

 Roundheads are at no great diftance, who have their 

 name from the roundnefs of their heads ; they think 

 there is a great beauty in this figure, and it is very 

 probable the mothers give it to their children, 

 while in their cradles. The Amikoues, otherwife 

 called the nation of the Beaver, are reduced almoft 

 to nothing ; the few remaining of them are found 

 in the ifland Manitoualin in the northern part of 

 Lake Huron. The Outaways who were formerly 

 Very numerous inhabited the banks of that great ri- 

 ver which bears their name, and of which they 

 pretended to be the lords. I know not but of three 

 yillages of them, very indifferently peopled, of 

 which I fhall fpeak in the fequel. 



Between Lake Huron and Lake Superior, even 

 in the ftreight itfelf, by which the fecond dis- 

 charges its waters into the firfl, there is a fall called 

 by us Sault St. Marie, or the Fall of St. Mary. 

 The country round about it was formerly peopled 

 by Indians, who it is faid came from the fouthern 

 banks of L,ake Superior, and were called Saulteurs, 

 that is to fay, Inhabitants of the Fall. This name 

 was probably given them to fave the labour of pro- 

 nouncing that which tney gave themfelves, which 

 could not poffibly be don^ without taking breath 



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