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And although this paradifc 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 regard to their ability to injure or efcape 
from one another ; (as all river fifti of prey, or fuch 
as feed upon each other, as well as the unwieldy 
crocodile, take their prey by furprife ; fecreting 
themfelves under covert or in ambufh, until an 
opportunity offers, when they rufh fuddenly upon 
them:) but here is no covert, no ambufh; here the 
trout freely paftes 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 others fafety, or feme other latent caufe, 
ihouid fo abfolutely alter their conduit, for here is 
not the leaft attempt made to injure or difturb one 
another. 
The fun palling below the horizon, and night ap? 
preaching, I arofe from my feat, and proceeding on 
arrived at my camp, kindled my fire, hipped and 
repofed peaceably. Rifing early, I employed the 
fore part of the day in collehling Specimens of grow- 
ing roots and feeds. In the afternoon, I left thefe 
Elyfian fprings and the aromatic groves, and brilldy 
defeended the pellucid little river, re-entering the 
great lake. The wind being gentle and fair for 
Mount Royal, I hoifted fail, and fuccefsfuly crofting 
the N. weft bay, about nine miles, came to at 
Rocky Point, the weft cape or promontory, as we 
enter the river deicending towards Mount Royal: 
thefe 
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