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 but he has referved the ufufruit for his own life, and 

 has got together on it eighteen or twenty families of 

 his own nation. I arrived in his ifiand on the 12th, 

 and paid him a vifit. I found him at work in his 

 garden \ this is not ufual with the Indians-, but this 

 perfon affects to follow all the French manners. He 

 received me very well, and w r ould have regaled me, 

 but the fine weather invited me to purfue my voy- 

 age. I took my leave of him, and went to pafs the 

 night two leagues from hence in a very pleafant 

 fpot. I had ftill thirteen leagues to fail before I 

 could reach Catarocoui ; the weather was fine, and 

 the night very clear ; this prevailed with us to em- 

 bark at three in the morning. We pafTed thro' the 

 middle of an archipelago called the thoufand iflands, 

 and 1 am fully perfuaded there are above five hun- 

 dred of them. After you have got from among 

 them, you have only a league and an half to fail to 

 reach Catarocoui. The river here is opener, and is 

 full half a league over. You leave afterwards on 

 your right three large creeks of a good depth, and 

 on the third the fort ilands. 



This fort has f onr baftions built of flone, which 

 occupy a- quarter of a league in circuit. Its fituation 

 is truly exceeding pleafant. The banks of the river 

 prefent on all fide landfkips of great variety, which 

 is alfo the cafe at the entry of lake Ontario, at no 

 more than a fhort league's diftance : it is adorned 

 with a number of i (lands of different extent, all of 

 them well wooded, and without any thing to con- 

 fine the profpecl on that fide. This lake bore for 

 fome time the name of St. Lewis, it afterwards ob- 

 tained that of Frontenac, as did alfo the fort of Ca- 

 tarocoui, of which Count Frontenac was the foun- 

 der. The lake however infenfibly recovered its an- 

 cient 



