TRAVELS IN 
And although this paradife of fifh may feem to 
exhibit a juft reprefentation of the peaceable and 
happy ftate of nature which exifted before the fall, 
yet in reality it is a mere reprefentation ; for the 
nature of the fifh is the fame as if they were in Lake 
George or the river ; but here the water or element 
in which they live and move, is fo perfectly clear 
and tranfparent, it places them all on an equality 
with regaid to their ability to injure or efcape from 
one another; (as all river fifh of prey, or fuch as 
feed upon each other, as well as the unwieldy cro- 
codile, take their prey by furprife ; fecreting 
themfelves under covert or in ambufh, until an op- 
portunity offers, when they rum fuddenly upon 
them :) but here is no covert, no ambufh ; here the 
trout freely paffes by the very nofe of the alligator, 
and laughs in his face, and the bream by the trout. 
But what is really furprifing is, that the confciouf- 
nefs of each other's fafety, or fome other latent 
caufe, mould fo absolutely alter their conduct, for 
here is not the leaft attempt made to injure or dif- 
turb one another. 
The fun palling below the horizon, and night ap- 
proaching, I rofe from my feat, and proceeding on 
arrived at my camp, kindled my fire, fupped and 
repofed peaceably. Rifmg early, I employed the 
fore part of the day in collecting Specimens of grow- 
ing roots -and feeds'. In the afternoon, I left thefe 
Elyfian fprings and the aromatic groves, and brifkly 
defcended the pellucid little river, re-entering the 
great lake. The wind being gentle and fair for 
'Mount Royal, I hoifted fail, and fuccefsfully croffing 
the N. weft bay, about nine miles, came to at 
Rocky Point, the weft cape or promontory, as we 
enter the river defceading towards Mount Royal : 
thefe 
