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the tribute of its waters to another river, it endea- 

 vours to return back to its fource. 



At its entrance into the Mifiiflippi, its channel 

 runs eaft-fouth-eaft. On the ninth of this month 

 a little after two in the afternoon, we found our- 

 felves in this river, which makes at prefent fo 

 great a noife in France, leaving on our right a large 

 meadow, whence ifTues a fmall river, in which there 

 is a great quantity of copper. Nothing can be 

 more delightful than this whole coaft. But it is 

 quite another thing on the left, there being on that 

 fide very high mountains, interfperled with rocks, 

 amongft which grow a few cedars ; but this is only 

 a narrow chain, and conceals behind it very fine 

 meadows. 



On the tenth about nine in the morning, after 

 failing five leagues on the Mifliiiippi, we arrived 

 at the mouth of the MhTouri, which lies north-weft 

 and fouth-fouth-eaft. Here is the fined conflu- 

 ence of two rivers that, I believe, is to be met 

 with in the whole world, each of them being about 

 half a league in breadth ; but the Miflburi is by 

 far the moft rapid of the two, and feems to enter 

 the Mifliflippi like a conqueror, carrying its white 

 waters unmixed acrofs its channel quite to the op- 

 pofite fide ; this colour it afterwards communi- 

 cates to the MirTifllppi, which henceforth it never 

 lofes* but hurls with precipitation to the fea it- 

 felf. 



We lay this night in a village of the Caoquias 

 and the "Tamarouas^ two Illinois tribes which have 

 been united, and together compofe no very numerous 

 canton. This village is fituated on a fmall river 

 which runs from the eaft, and has no water but in 



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