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With the conftru&ion of furnaces. Nothing could 

 be more furprizing than the facility with which 

 the company at that time expofed themfelves to 

 great expences, and the little precaution they took 

 to be fatisfied of the capacity of thofe they 

 employed. La Renaudiere and his miners not be- 

 ing able to produce any lead, a private company- 

 undertook the mines of Marameg, and the Sieur 

 Renaud one of the directors, fuperintended them 

 with care. In the month of June laft he found a 

 bed of lead two foot in thicknefs, runinng to a 

 great length over a chain of mountains, where he 

 has now fet his people to work. He flatters him- 

 felf that there isfilver below the lead. Every body 

 is not of his opinion, but time will difcover the 

 truth. 



Yefterday I arrived at Kafkafquias about nine 

 o'clock in the morning. The Jefuits have here a 

 very flourifhing miffion, which has lately been di- 

 vided into two, thinking it convenient to have 

 two cantons of Indians inftead of one. The mo ft 

 numerous is on the banks of the Miffiffippi, of which 

 two jefuits have the fpiritual direction : half a 

 league below ftands fort Chartres, about the dif- 

 tance of a mufket-fhot from the river. M. Du- 

 gue de Boifbriliard, a gentleman of Canada, com- 

 mands here for the company, to whom this place 

 belongs •, the French are now beginning to fettle 

 the country between this fort and the firft miffion. 

 Four leagues farther and about a league from the 

 river, is a large village inhabited by the French, 

 who are ^Imoft all Canadians and have a jefuit for 

 their curate. The fecond village of the Illinois 

 lies farther up the country, at the diftance of two 

 leagues from this laft, and is under the charge of a 

 fourth jefuit. 



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