JOURNAL 



O F A 



VOYAGE 



Made by Order of the Trench King through 



NORTH AMERICA. 



LETTER XVII. 



Defcription of Lake Erie. Voyage as far as De- 

 troit or the Narrows. Project for a Settlement 

 in this Place. Caufe of its Failure. Council called 

 by the Commandant of Fort Pontchartrain, and 

 the Subject of it. Of the Games of the Indians. 



Fort Pontchartrain in the Narrows, June 8, 1721, 



Madam, * 



I Set out on the 27th of laft month from the 

 entrance of lake Erie after fealing my laft let- 

 ter, and though it was then late I made three 

 leagues farther that day with the advantage of a 

 favourable wind and the fineft weather in the 

 world. The courfe is by coafting along the north 

 lhore amounting to a hundred leagues. The way 

 turning off towards the fouth from Niagara is 

 Vol. II, B much 



