other to that of the Iroquois. Tliis is one of the most important rivers that can be seen, whether we regard its beauty or its convenience

;

for

we meet there almost throughout, a vast number of beautiful Islands, some large

others small, but all covered with fine timber and full of deer, bears, wild cows which supply abundance of provisions necessary for the travellers who find it every where, and some times entire herds of fallow deer.

The banks of the main land are ordinarily shaded by huge oaks and other lofty

timber covering a good soil. Before arriving at the Great Lake Ontario, two others are traversed, one of which adjoins the Island of Montreal, the other is amidway.

It is ten leagues long by six wide.

It is

terminated by

a great many little islands very pleasing to the sight, and we have named it Lake St. Francis.

But what renders this river inconvenient is the water falls and rapids which extend for the space of forty leagues, to wit from Montreal to the entrance of Lake Ontario, there being only the two lakes just mentioned of easy navigation.

To surmount these torrents, we must often debark from

the canoe and walk in the river whose waters are sufficiently low in these quarters, chiefly towards the banks.

We take the canoe in hand dragging it after us.

ward

bow, the other behind at the stern

at the

of the bark of trees, and as it is not loaded, great resistance.