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fide, but that of the eaft is a fandy track pro- 

 ducing nothing but red cedars, of an indifferent 

 growth and in fmail quantities. The white cedar 

 is of more general ufe than the red, the wood of 

 which is eafily broken, and is only fit for making 

 fmall pieces of furniture. It is a notion in this 

 " country that women with child mould not ufe it in 

 bulks. The leaves of this tree yield no odour but 

 .the wood does. Quite the reverie happens in the 

 white cedar. There are a great number of bears 

 in this country, and more than four hundred of 

 thefe animals were killed laft winter on Point e 

 Pelte alone. 



On the fifth towards four o'clock in the after- 

 noon we perceived the land on the fouth fhore, 

 and two little iflands which lie very near it, Thefe 

 are called Rattlefnake iflands, and we are told 

 they are fo infefted with thefe reptiles that the air 

 is infecled with them. We entered the Narrows 

 an hour before funfet, and parkd the night above 

 a very beautiful ifland, called L'ifle de Bois Blanc, 

 or White-wood ifland. From Long-point to the 

 Narrows the courfe is always weft \ from the entry 

 of the Narrows to the ifland of Sc. Clair, which 

 is five or fix leagues, and thence to Lake Huron 

 it bends fowewhat towards the eaft,' inclining to 

 the fouth ; thus the whole of the Narrows, which 

 are thirty-two leagues long, lies between 42 degrees 

 12 or 15 minutes, and 43 degrees and a half north 

 latitude. Above the ifland of St. Clair, the Nar- 

 rows widen and form a lake, which has either re- 

 ceived its name from the ifland, or given it its 

 own. It is about fix leagues long and as many 

 broad in fome places. 



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