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•with Buffaloes and other wild beafts : at its en- 

 trance into the Mifiifippi, it is very fhallow as well 

 as narrow ; nevertheless, its courfe from north to 

 weft, is faid to be two hundred and fifty leagues 

 in length. It rifes from a lake and is faid to form 

 a fecond, at the diftance of fifty leagues from the 

 firft. 



Turning to the left from this fecond lake we 

 enter into Blue River, fo called from its bottom, 

 which is an earth of that colour* It difcharges itfelf 

 into the river of St. Peter. Going up to the Moin- 

 gona, we find great plenty of pit coal, and a hun- 

 dred and fifty leagues from its mouth there is a 

 very large cape, which caufes a turn in the river, 

 in which place its waters are red and (linking. It 

 is affirmed, that great quantities of mineral ftones 

 and fome antimony have been found upon this 

 cape. 



A league above the mouth of the Moingona, 

 there are two rapids or ftrong currents of a confi- 

 derable length in the Miffifippi, where paflengers 

 are obliged to unload and carry their pirogues : and 

 above the fecond rapide, that is about twenty 

 leagues from the Moingona, there are lead mines 

 on both fides of the river, which were difcovered 

 fome time ago, by a famous traveller of Canada 

 called Nicholas Perrot, whofe name they ftill bear. 

 Ten leagues above the Ouifconfing, and on the 

 fame fide is a meadow fixty leagues in length, and 

 bounded by mountains which afford a delightful 

 profpecl ; there is another on the weft fide, but 

 it is not of fuch a length. Twenty leagues 

 higher than the extremity of the firft mea- 

 dow, the river grows wider, and is here cal- 

 led 



