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my Letters, and therefore fliall now only point to the 

 moft noted places,and take notice of what may gratis 

 fie your curiofity beyond what you have yet heard. 



We are at a lofs to find the Head of the River of 

 St. Laurence y for tho' we have traced it feven or eight 

 hundred Leagues up, yet we could never reach its 

 fource ; the remoteft place that the Coureurs At Boh 

 go to, being the Lake Lenemipigon y which difimbogues 

 into the Upper Lake, as the Upper Lake do's into the 

 Lake of Hurons^ the Lake of Hurons into that of Errii 

 alias Conti> and that of Errie, into the Lake of Fron- 

 tenacy which forms this laft great River, that runs for 

 twenty Leagues with a pretty gentle Stream, and 

 fweeps thro' thirty more with a very rapid Current,till 

 it reaches the City of Monreal; from whence it con- 

 tinues its courfe with fome moderation to the City 

 of Quebec ; and after that fpreads out, and inlar^ 

 ges it felf by degrees to its Mouth, which lies a hun^ 

 dred Leagues further. If we may credit the North- 

 Country Savages, this River takes its rife from th@ 

 great Lake of the AjJinipouah y which they give out to 

 be larger than any of the Lakes I mentioned but now, 

 being fituated at the diftance of fifty or fixty Leagues 

 from the Lake of Lenemiplgon. The River of St* 

 Laurence is 2 o or 22 Leagues broad at its Mouth, m 

 the middle of which there's an Ifland call'd £nti- 

 cofii y which is twenty Leagues long. This Ifland be«? 

 longs to theSieur Joint a Canadan, who has built a* 

 little fortify'd Magazine upon it, to guard his Goods 

 and his Family from the Incurfions of the Eski* 

 mmxy of whom more anon. He deals with the o- 

 ther Savage Nations, namely, the Montagnois, and 

 the Papipanachois in Arms and Ammunition, byway 

 of exchange for the Skins of Sea- Wolves or Sea- 

 Calves, and fome other Furs. 



Over againft this Ifland, to the Southward of it* 

 we find the Ifle call'd V IJleVercce, which is a greas 

 Rock with a paflage bor'd through it, in which 



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