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(3n the fixth I pafied what they call les Chefnautt 

 du Lac. This they call the channels, formed by a 

 multitude of ifiands, which occupy almoft all the ri- 

 ver in this place. I never faw a more charming 

 country, and the foil appears excellent. The reft 

 of the day we did nothing but clear the rapides : the 

 moft considerable called le Moulinet, terrified me only 

 to look at it, and we had much ado to extricate our- 

 felves from it. I made however this day, almofi: 

 feven leagues, and encamped at the foot of the fall 

 called U long Sauk: this is a rapide half a league in 

 length, where canoes cannot fail up, but half load- 

 ed. 'We pafied it on the 7th in the morning. We 

 afterwards went on till three in the afternoon under 

 fail, when the rain objiged us to encamp, and de- 

 tained us all next day. There even fell on the 8th a 

 little fnow, and on the night it froze as in France 

 in the month of January. We were however under 

 the fame parallel with Languedoc. On the ninth we 

 pafied k Rapide plat, or flat fall, about feven leagues- 

 from the Sault^ and five from h Galofs, which is 

 the laft of the Rapides. La Galette is a league and 

 a half farther, where we arrived on the 10th. I 

 could never have wearied of admiring the country 

 between this creek and the Gallots. It is impofiible 

 to fee nobler fore (Is. I remarked efpeciaily oaks of 

 an amazing height. 



Five or fix leagues from la Galette, is an ifland 

 called Tonihata, the foil of which appears tolerably 

 fertile, and which is about half a league long. An 

 Iroquois, called the Quaker, for what reaibn I know 

 not, a man of excellent good fenfe, and much de- 

 voted to the French, had obtained the right to it 

 from the Compte de Frontenac. and he fhews his 

 patent to every body that defires to fee it. He has- 

 however fold his lordlhip for four pots of brandy 



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