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The high lands and other kinds of foil, not Ir 

 able to be overflowed by the river, are even already 

 very well adapted for producing corn, and if the tri- 

 als made in fome places have not fucceeded, be- 

 caufe the corn has been blafted or mildewed ; it 

 is owing to this circumftance, that the country not 

 being cleared, the wind has not free accefs todifperfe 

 thofe noxious vapours which generate mildews. 

 An evident proof of which may be drawn from this, 

 that amongft the Illinois, where there is more mea- 

 dow than wood-iand, wheat thrives and ripens as 

 well as in France. 



On the thirteenth, after a very warm night, we 

 advanced about three leagues, in fpite of a fouther- 

 ]y wind, which ftill encreafed, and at laft became 

 fo violent that we were obliged to halt. A heavy 

 rain fell towards the evening, and about midnight 

 the wind fprung up at north -weft, which brought 

 on that exceffive cold I have already fpoken of. 

 To compleat our misfortune, an accident detained 

 us all the following day, though we were not 

 fafe to remain where we then were. Not long ago 

 the Cherokees maflacred thirty Frenchmen near 

 this place ; they were commanded by a fon of 

 M. de Ramezar governor of Montreal, and a fon 

 of the Baron dejLonguevil KingVlieutenant of that 

 city. Befides thefe Indians wjio are not as yet re- 

 conciled with us, we were kept in continual 

 alarms for fear of the Outagamies, Sioux and 

 Chacachas ; and I had not above three men in my 

 company. 



On the fifteenth, the wind changed to the north, 

 and the cold continued to encreafe. We advanced 

 four leagues to the fouthward, and then found that 



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