Harmon's journal. 



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a cross has been erected. Those, therefore, who 

 are in the habit of voyaging this way, are obliged 

 to say their prayers more frequently perhaps, 

 than when at home ; for at almost every rap- 

 id which we have passed, since we left Mon- 

 treal, we have seen a number of crosses erected; 

 and at one, I counted no less than thirty ! It is 

 truly melancholy, and discouraging, seriously to re- 

 flect on the great number of my fellow creatures, 

 who have been brought to an untimely end, by 

 voyaging this way, as I know not but I shall my- 

 self, also, be doomed to the same watery grave. 

 With such dismal spectacles, however, almost con- 

 tinually before our eyes, we press forward, with 

 all the ardour and rashness of youth, in the same 

 dangerous path, stimulated by the hopes of grati- 

 fying the eye, and of securing a little gold. 



Saturday, 24. Lake Huron. We find on the 

 shore of this lake, low Cranberries, in great abun- 

 dance. 



Sunday, 25. The wind has been so high, that 

 it has prevented us from sailing, the greater part 

 of the day. We are encamped on an island, of 

 which there are many in this lake. On one of 

 them, it is reported, that the Natives killed a 

 snake, which measured thirty six feet in length. 

 The length and size of this astonishing serpent, 

 they have engraved on a large smooth rock, which 



