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and after failing fifty leagues higher, you difcover 

 a fourth fall, nothing inferior to the third. The 

 courfe of this river is an hundred leagues, and after 

 you have failed up fixty leagues on it, you have no 

 more than ten to make over land, turning towards 

 the right, to arrive at the Ohio, otherwife, la Belle 

 Riviere. The place where you arrive at is called 

 Ganos, where, an officer worthy of credit, and from 

 whom I have received all I have been relating to 

 you, allures me he faw a fountain, the water of 

 which refembles oil, and has the tafte of iron. He 

 added, that a little farther there is another exactly of 

 the fame kind, and that the Indians make ufe of 

 its water to mitigate all kinds of pains. 



The bay of the Tfonnonthouans is a delightful 

 place : here is a fine river which meanders between 

 two beautiful meadows fkirted with hills, between 

 which you difcover vallies which ftretch a great 

 way, the whole forming the nobleil profpect in the 

 whole world, and is furrounded with a magnificent 

 foreft of the talieftand largeit timber trees : but the 

 foil feemed to me a little light and fandy. We fet 

 out again at half an hour pad one, and continued 

 our voyage till ten at night. Our defign was to 

 take up our night's lodgings within a fmall river 

 called BufFaloe's river ; but we found the entry fhut 

 up with fand banks, which often happens to fmall 

 rivers which difcharge themfelves into thefe lakes, 

 by reafon of their carrying a great quantity of fand 

 along with them : for when the wind blows directly 

 towards their mouths, the fand is flopped by the 

 waves, and gradually forms a dike, fo high and 

 ftronor that the current of the rivers cannot force a 

 pafTage thro' it, except at fuch times as they are 

 fwoln by the melting of the fnow. 



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