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LETTER XIX. 



Voyage from the Narrows to Michillimakinac. Def- 

 fcription of the country. Of the marriages of the 

 Indians. 



Michillimakinac, June 30, 1721. 



Madam, 



IT was on the 18th of this month I at length 

 took my leave for good and all of fort Pont- 

 chartrain at the Narrows, a little before funfet. 

 I had fcarce advanced a league in my way before 

 a ftorm accompanied with a deluge of rain, obli- 

 ged me to make to land well foaked, where we 

 pafifed the night in a very uncomfortable manner. 

 AH I was able to get forward the next day was to 

 traverfe lake St. Clair, which is about four leagues 

 long 5 the country appeared to me very good on 

 both fides. At half way you leave on your left 

 a river 120 feet in breadth at its mouth; this 

 has got the name of the river of the Hurons, 

 thefe Indians having taken fancluary here during 

 the war with the Iroquois. On the right and al- 

 moft oppofite is another river, the mouth of which 

 is twice as wide, and which is navigable for four- 

 fcore leagues without any rapid current, a rare 

 thing in the rivers of this country : they could not 

 tell me its name. 



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