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mains, as far as the cape, the foot of which it now 

 wafhes, and where it has opened itfelf a new paf- 

 fage. The year following, one of the perfons who 

 had paid the laft offices to this fervant of God, 

 returned to the place where they had buried him, 

 took what remained of him, and carried it to Mi- 

 chillimakinac. I have not been able to learn, or 

 elfe I have forgot, the name this river formerly 

 bore : but at this day the Indians always call it 

 the river of the black robe, for thus the Indians 

 term the jefuits. They call the fecular clergy I 

 White-bands as they do the recollets Grey-gowns, j 

 The French call this river Father Marquette's ri- 

 ver, and never fail to call upon him when they are 

 in any danger on lake Michigan. Several of them 

 have affirmed, that they believed themfelves in- 

 debted to his interceffion for having efcaped very 

 great dangers. 



1 advanced three leagues farther that day, and 

 and pitched my camp at the mouth of the river 

 St. Nicholas, on the banks of a fine lake, longer 

 but not quite fo broad as the former. I found 

 here great numbers of red and white pines, the 

 latter of which have the roughed bark, but the 

 wood of them is the better of the two, and from it 

 iffues a gum of tolerable finenefs ; the former 

 have a fmoother bark but the wood is heavier : 

 from thefe is drawn the tar of which is made the 

 beft fort of pitch. I had a pleafant enough voyage 

 as far as the river St. Jofeph, which I entered 

 very late on the 6th or very early on the 7th, for 

 it was about midnight when we arrived at this 

 place ; having taken two full hours reft on the 

 banks of the lake of the Black River, which is 

 eight leagues diftant from it, and where there 

 grows much of the root called gingfeng. 



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