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fifippi above the river of the Illinois, are in the firft 

 place, the river of Buffaloes^ which is at the 

 diftance of twenty leagues from the former, and 

 comes from the weftward ; a fine lalt-pit has been 

 difcovered in its neighbourhood. Pits of the fame 

 kind have been found on the banks of the Mara- 

 meg, twenty leagues from hence. About forty 

 leagues farther is the Jffenefipi, or river at the 

 rock ; becaufe its mouth is directly oppofite to a 

 mountain placed in the river itfelf, where travellers 

 affirm rock-chryftal is to be found* 



Twenty-five leagues higher up, we find on the 

 right hand the Ouifconftng, by which father Mar- 

 quette and the Sieur Joiiet entered the Miffifippi* 

 when they firft difcovered it. The Ai'ouez who 

 are fettled in this place, lying in 43 deg. 30 min. 

 north latitude, who are great travellers, and as is 

 faid march five and twenty or thirty leagues a day* 

 when without their families, tell us that after lea- 

 ving their country we fhould in three days arrive 

 amongft a people called Omans, who have white 

 fkins and fair hair, efpeciolly the women. They 

 add, that this people is continually at waj: with the 

 Panis and other more remote Indians towards the 

 weft, and that they have heard them fpeak of a 

 great lake very far from their country, on the banks 

 of which are people refembling the French, with' 

 buttons on their cloaths, living in cities, and ufing 

 horfes in hunting the Buffalo, and cloathed with 

 the fkins of that animal but without any arms ex- 

 cept the bow and v arrow. 



On the left fide about fifty leagues above the ri- 

 ver of Buffaloes, the river Moingona iffiies from 

 the midft of an immenfe meadow, which fvvarms 



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