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The journey up this mountain is not now fo dif- 
ficult as it was in the time of father Labat, in the 
year 1 695. Much more commodious roads are now 
•u!ed than that which he followed. Travellers ge- 
nerally lie at fome houfe at the foot of the moun- 
tain. From thence they go on horfeback as far as 
the torrent, where they have the choice of two dif- 
ferent ways. The firft begins at a place called Les 
Gommiers, or The Gum-trees, along th.e rim- of 
Galleons ; the other lies towards the middle of the 
mountain, at a place called Tar are, where they crofs 
the river St. Lewis. 
You generally fet out early from the place where 
you have fpent the night, and breakfaft in the cool 
of the morning, on the banks of one of the rivers, 
whofe waters are very clear and good, and produce 
great quantities of fmall fifh, fuch as cray-fifh, bull- 
heads, eels, &c. This is -one of thofe delights fo 
emphatically defcribed by father du Tertre. We 
perceived thefe waters to be diuretic, by the fudden 
effedt they had upon us. 
We took the road of the Gum-Trees as being the 
eafieft. I foon obferved, that the woods differed in 
kind, as we afcended j the trees arefmaller, and are 
no more than fhrubs at the top, that is to fay, on a 
level with the other mountains. Here you meet 
with none but mountain-mangles, whofe wood is 
crooked and bends downwards. The bark of thefe 
mangles is a true jefuit’s bark*. When we had 
paffed through this forefi: of mangles, which are as 
* F. Labat made the fame obfervation. S zz Voyage aux IJIes de 
l'Ameriqu£. Tom. II. 
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