to North- America. lip 



us great lumps, that have yielded that precious Met- 

 tal with little wafte. 



From the Lake Errie, I fleer my courfe to that 

 of Frontenac, which I could not forbear to fpeak of 

 in my feventh and fevcnteenth Letters. This Lak^ 

 (as I intimated above ) is 180 Leagues in Circumfe- 

 rence, its figure is Oval, and its depth runs between 

 twenty and twenty five Fathom. On the South fide 

 it receives feveral little Rivers, particularly thofe of 

 the7fimntouans,of the Onnont agues, and of the Famine $ 

 on the North fide 'tis joyn'd by the Rivers of Ga- 

 naraske, and of Teonontate. Its fides are deck'd with 

 tall Trees, and the ground is indifferent even and 

 level, for it has no fteep Coafts. On the North fide 

 we meet with feveral little Gulfs. You may go 

 from this Lake to that of Hurons, by going up the 

 River Tanaouate, from whence you have a Land-car- 

 riage of fix or eight Leagues to the River of Toron- 

 to, which falls into it. You may likewife have a 

 paffage from the Lake of Frontenac, to that of Errie, 

 through the Bay of Ganaraske, by making a Land- 

 carriage from thence to a little River that's full of 

 Catara&s. The Villages of the Onnontagues, Tfonon~ 

 towns, Goyogouans, and Onnoyoutes, are not far diftant 

 from the Lake of Front mac. Thefe Irocjuefe Nations 

 are very advantageoufly feated. They have a plea- 

 fant and fertile Country ; but they want Roe-Bucks 

 and Turkeys, as well as Fifh, of which their Ri- 

 vers are altogether deftitute, infomuch that they are 

 forc'd to fifh in theLake, and to broil or dry their 

 Fifh with a Fire, in order to keep 'em and trans- 

 port 'em to their Villages. They are in like man- 

 ner forc'd to range out of their own Territories, in 

 queft of Beavers in the Wintertime, either towards 

 Ganaraske , or to the fides of the Lake of Toron- 

 to, or elfe towards the great River of the Outaouas ; 

 where 'twould be an eafie matter to cut all their 

 Throats, by purfuing the courfe I laid down in my 



Letters* 



