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der to gain the Point of the raver fe ; for had I 

 coafted along the main land in order to get at that 

 place, from that where I fpent the night, I fhould 

 have had a courfe to make of above forty leagues, 

 which way, however, mud be taken when the lake 

 is not very calm ; for if it be ever fo little agitated, 

 the waves are as heavy as thofe at open fea. it is 

 not even poffible to range along the coaft when the 

 wind is any thing large. 



From the point of the Ifle aux Gal'ots, you fee 

 to the weft ward the river of Chauguen, formerly 

 the river of Onnontague, at the diftance of four- 

 teen leagues. As the lake was calm, as there was 

 no appearance of bad weather, and as we had a 

 fmall breeze at eaft, juft fufficient to fill our fails, 

 I took a refolution to fleer directly for that river* 

 in order to fave a circuit of fifteen or twenty leagues. 

 My guides who had more experience than I, ima- 

 gined this enterprize hazardous, but yielded out of 

 complaifance to my opinion. The beauty of the 

 country which lay on the left hand, did not tempt 

 me, any more than the lalmon and great quantities 

 of other excellent fifh, which are taken in the fix 

 fine rivers, which lie at the diftance of two or three 

 leagues from one another*. We therefore bore 

 away, and till four o'clock had no reafon to repent 

 it •, but then the wind rofe all on a fudden, and 

 we fhould have been very well pleafed to have been 

 clofe in with the land. We made towards the 

 neareft, from which we ftill were three leagues, and 

 had great difficulty to gain it. At laft about feven 



* The river of Affumption is a league from the point of the 

 Traverfe, that of Sables three leagues farther ; that of la Planche 

 two leagues beyond the former, that of La Grande Famine two 

 leagues more, that of La Petite Famine one league, and that 

 of La grofie Ecorce another league, 



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