a spring that they durst not drink, saying that there is a Demon in it which renders it fetid

;

having

and in fact we made Salt from it as natural as that of which we carried a sample to Quebec. This lake abounds in^fish in salmon trout

tasted it I found it was a fountain of Salt water ;

from the sea

;

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and other fish. 17th.

We enter their river, and at a quarter of a league meet at the left the Seneca river, which

increases this ;

it leads,

they say, to Cayuga (Onioen) and to Seneca in two sunsets.

At three leagues

we leave the river Oneida (Oneiout) winch appears to us very deep. Finally a good league lower down we meet a rapid which gives the name to a village of fishermen. I found there some of our Christians and some Huron Christian women whom I had not yet seen. of a fine road from there,

19th.

We proceed on our journey on the same river which is of a fine width and deep throughout, except some shoals where we must get into the water and draw the canoe lest the rocks break it. 20.

We arrive at the Great Lake, Ontario, called the Lake of the Iroquois.

This lake is in a fury in consequence of the violence of the winds after a storm of rain.

22.

Coasting quietly the shores of this Great Lake, my sailors kill with a shot from a gun, a large