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led le lac de Ion Secours. This is a league over and 

 feven leagues in circuit. Nicholas Perrot built a 

 fort on the right fide. 



On leaving this lake you meet with F ijle PeUe± 

 or Bald Mland, fo named from its having no trees 

 upon it ; this is a very fine meadow : and the 

 French of Canada have frequently made it the. 

 center of their commerce for the weftern parts, and 

 many have even wintered there, all this country 

 being very plentiful of game. Three leagues above 

 Bald Iiland you leave on your right hand the ri- 

 viere de Sainte Croix, or river of the Holy Crofs, 

 which proceeds from the neighbourhood o Lake 

 Superior ; copper is faid to have been found near 

 its mouth. Some leagues farther you leave on the 

 left the river of St. Peter, the banks of which 

 are inhabited by the Sioux, and its mouth is at 

 no great diftance from St. Anthony's fail. Be- 

 yond this great cafcade the Miflifippi is alto- 

 gether unknown. 



To return to the Illinois ; if what I have heard 

 afTerted in feveral places be true, and which the 

 Miflburi woman above-mentioned has alfo confirm* 

 ed to me, that they and the Miamis come from 

 the banks of a very diftant fea, to the we ft ward *j 

 it would feem that their firft ftation after the^ 

 made their defcent into this country was the Moin- 

 gona : at lead it is certain, that one of their tribes 

 bears that name. The reft are known under the 



* A Miamife woman who had been prifoner among the 

 Sioux affured Father de St. Pe, at prefer, t fuperior of the 

 millions of New-France, that me had been carried by the 

 Sioux to a village of their nation, which was very near the 

 fea* 



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