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two or three times *. There is no nation, at leafi 

 that I know of, fettled on the banks of Lake Su- 

 perior but in the pods which we po fiefs there a 

 trade is carried on with the Chriftinaux, wh6 come 

 from the north- eaft, and fpeak the Algonquin lan- 

 guage, and with the AfTiniboils, who come from 

 the north- weft. 



Lake Michigan* which is almoft parallel to' Lake 

 Huron, into which it difcharges itfelf, and is fepa- 

 rated from it by a peninfula, about a hundred leagues 

 in length, growing continually narrower towards 

 the north, has but few inhabitants on its banks ; I 

 do not even know if ever any nation was fixed there, 

 and it is without foundation, that it has been called 

 in fome maps the lake of the Illinois. Going up the 

 River St. Jofeph^ the waters of which it receives, you 

 find two villages of different nations, who have come 

 from fome other place not long fince. On the 

 weft fide of this lake is a large bay, extending eight 

 and twenty leagues to the fouth, and called the Baye 

 des Puans* or fimply the Bay. Its entrance is very 

 large, and interfperfed with iflands, fome of which 

 are from fifteen to twenty leagues in circumference. 

 They were formerly inhabited by the Poutewatamies^ 

 whole name they bear, excepting fome few on the 

 right hfnd, where there are ftill fome Indians called 

 Ncquets. The Poutewatamies poffefs at prefent one 

 of the fmalleft of thefe iflands, and have befides 

 two other villages, one at the river St. Jofeph, and 

 the other at the Narrows. At the bottom of this 

 bay are the Sakis and Otchagras^ which laft are like- 

 wife called Puans or Stinkards, for* what reafon I 

 know not ; but before you arrive amongfl them you 

 leave upon your right hand, another fmall nation 



* PANOTRIGOUiilOUHAK. 



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