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It is pretended that this is the fined part of all 

 Canada, and really if we may judge by appear- 

 ances, nature feems to have reiufed it nothing that 

 can contribute to make a country delightful ; hills, 

 rneadows, fields, lofty forefls, rivulets, fountains, 

 rivers, and all of them fo excellent in their kind, 

 and fo happily blended, as to equal the mofl ro- 

 mantic wifhes ; the lands however are not all e- 

 qually proper for every fort of grain, but mofl: 

 are of a wonderful fertility, and I have known 

 fome produce good wheat for eighteen years run- 

 ning without any manure, and befides all of them 

 are proper for fome particular ufe. The iflands 

 feem placed on purpofe for the pleafure of the 

 profpecl ; the river and lake abound in fifh, the 

 air is pure, and the climate temperate and ex- 

 tremely wholfome. 



Before you arrive at the fort, which ftands on 

 the left, a league below the ifland of St. Claire, 

 you find on the fame fide two pretty populous vil- 

 lages very near each other ; the firft is inhabited 

 by the Tionnontatez a tribe of the Hurons, and 

 the fame who after having wandered to and fro for 

 a long time, firft fettled at the balls of St. Mary s 

 and at Michillimakinac ; the fecond is inhabited 

 by the Poutewatamie Indians. On the right, 

 fomewhat higher is a third village of the Ou- 

 tawais, infeparable companions of the Hurons 

 from the time that both of them were driven from 

 their country by the Iroquois ; there are no chrifti- 

 ans at all among thefe laft, and few if any amongft 

 the pQutewaternies ; the Hurons are all chriflians, 

 but have no miffionaries ; it is faid they will admit 

 of none, but this is only true of a few of their 

 principal men who have not much religion, and 



who 



