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agreeable, no more vines, draggling fhrubby 

 woods, and very little game. Ten leagues beyond 

 the bay of Saguinam you perceive two very large 

 rivers, a league diflant from each other, and four or 

 five leagues farther a creek called, Am eau Tonnerre^ 

 or Thunder Creek, three leagues over at the mouth, 

 but of no great depth within land. Michillima- 

 kimac lies in 43 deg. and 30 min. north lat. and 

 the courfe which is thirty leagues long from the 

 mouth of the Narrows, coafting along the wefl- 

 ern fhore of lake Huron is almo{t due north. I 

 arrived the 28th in this poft which is much fallen 

 to decay, fince the time that Monfieur de la Motte 

 Cadillac, carried to the Narrows the beft part of 

 the Indians who were fettled here, and efpecially 

 the Hurons feveral of the Outawaies followed 

 them thither, others difperfed themfelves amongd 

 the beaver iflands, fo that what is left is only a 

 forry village, where there is notwithftanding ftill 

 carried on a confiderable fur-trade, this being a 

 thoroughfare or rendezvous of a number of Indian 

 nations. 



The fort is ftill kept up as well as the houfe of 

 the miffionaries, who at prefent are not diftrefled 

 with bufinefs, having never found the Outawaies 

 much difpofed to receive their inductions, but 

 the court judges their prefence necerTary in a place 

 where we are often obliged to treat with our aliies, 

 m order to exercife their functions on the French, 

 who repair hither in great numbers. I have been 

 allured that fince the fettlemenc of the Narrows, 

 and the difperfion of the Indians which has fol- 

 lowed upon it, feveral northern nations that were 

 wont to bring their Furs to this place, have fince 

 found the way to Hudfon's bay by the river Bour- 

 bon where they trade with the Englifh but Mon- 



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