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or feeing one human creature - r to be engaged 

 in a voyage of two or three hundred leagues to 

 fhiin a paiTage of twenty, made with many difficul- 

 ties, and with the hazard of lofing one's life by the 

 caprice of the winds to be (topped, as it fometimes 

 happens, for whole weeks, on fome point or barren 

 more, or if it mould happen to rain, to be obliged 

 to take up one's lodging under fome canoe, or in a 

 tent : if the wind proves ftrong we mud feek for 

 fhelter in fome wood, where we are expofed to be 

 crufhed to death by the fall of fome tree. Thefe 

 inconveniencies might be fhunned in part by the 

 building veffels for failing on the lakes but in or- 

 der to have this advantage, the trade mull be better 

 able to afford it. 



We are now on the borders of the Iroquois can- 

 tons, which is an exceeding delightful country. We 

 embarked early yefterday in the fineft weather ima- 

 ginable. There was not a fingle breath of wind, 

 and the lake was as fmooth as glafs. About nine 

 or ten o'clock we pafTed by the mouth of the river 

 of Onnantague, which feemed to me to be about 1 20 

 feet in breadth. The lands near it are fomewhat 

 low, but exceeding well wooded. Almofl: all the 

 rivers which water the Iroquois cantons difcharge 

 themfelves into this, the fource of which is a fine 

 lake called Garment atha^ on the banks of which are 

 faltpits. Towards half an hour paft eleven we made 

 fail by favour of a fmall breeze at north-earl, and in 

 a tew hours pufhed on as far as the Bay des Goyogo- 

 uins^ which is ten leagues from the Riviere of On- 

 nontague. The whole coaft in this tract is diverfi- 

 fied with fwamps and high lands fomewhat fandy, 

 covered with the fined trees, efpecially oaks, which 

 feem as if planted by the hand of men. 



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