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On the 30th, after advancing five leagues, W€ 

 pafTed a fecond pointe coupee* or cut point the ri* 

 ver makes a very great turning in this place, add 

 the Canadians, by means of digging the channel of 

 a (mall brook, have carried the waters of the rivef 

 into it, where fuch is the impetuofity of the Aream* 

 that the point has been entirely cut through* and 

 thereby travellers fave fourteen leagues of their 

 voyage. The old bed is now actually dry, having 

 never any water in it, but in the time of an in- 

 un- . ation an evident proof that the river inclines 

 its channel towards the eafl, and a circumftance 

 which cannot be too much attended to, by thofe 

 who fettle on either fide. This new channel has 

 been, fince that time, founded with a line of thirty 

 fathoms, without finding any bottom. 



Immediately below and on the fame fide, we faw 

 the feeble beginnings of a grant, called Sainte 

 Reine, belonging to Meffrs. Coetlogon and Kollu 

 It is fituated on a very fertile fpot, and has nothing 

 to fear from the overflowing of the river ; but 

 from nothing, nothing can proceed, efpecially, when 

 people are not induiirious, and in fuch a fituatiori 

 this fettlement appeared to be. Advancing a 

 league farther this day, we arrived at the grant of 

 Madame de Mezieres, where the rain detained us 

 all the following day. A few huts covered with 

 the leaves of trees* and a large tent made of 

 canvas, are what the whole of this fettlement at 

 prefent confifts of. Planters and goods are ex- 

 pected from the Black-river, where the warehoufes 

 are, which they feem refolved not to abandon,, 

 But I am very much affraid, that by endeavour- 

 ing to make two fettlements at once, both will 

 probably mi-fcarry. 



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