The body of the mine is not yet discovered. I have seen one of our voyageurs who assures me that he saw, 15 months ago, a lump 200 weight, as yellow as gold in a river which falls into Lake Superior.

When heated, it is cut with an axe, but the superstitious Indians regarding this piece as a good

Spirit would never permit him to take any of it.

DENONVILLE's EXPEDITION TO THE GENESEE COUNTRY AND NIAGARA.

ACTE OF THE TAKING POSSESSION OF THE COUNTRY OF THE IROQUOIS CALLED SENECAS, 19 JULY 1687. [ Paris

Doc. III. ]

On the nineteenth of July, One thousand six hundred and eighty seven, the troops commanded by Messire Jacques Rene de Brisay Chevalier Seigneur Marquis de Denonville and other places, Governor and Lieutenant General for the King throughout the whole of Canada and country of New

France, in presence of Hector, Chevalier de Calliere, Governor of Montreal in said country, Commandant of the camp under his orders,and of Philip de Rigaud, Chevalier de Vaudreuil, Commandant of the King's troops, which being drawn up in the order of battle, Charles Aubert Sieur de la Chenays citizen of Quebec, deputed by Messire Jean Bochart, Chevalier, Seigneur de Champigny, Norvy, Verneuil and other places, Privy Councilor to the King, Intendant of Justice, Police and Finance, in all Northern France, presented himself at the head of the army, who stated and declared that on the requisition of the said Seigneur de Champigny, he took possession of the village of Totiakton, as he has done of the other three villages of Gannagaro, Gannondata and Gannongarae, and of a Fort half a league distant from the said village of Gannagaro, together with all the lands in their vicinity as many and how far soever they may extend, conquered in His Majesty's name, and to that end has planted in all the said Villages and Forts His said Majesty's Arms and has caused to be proclaimed in loud voice, Vive le Roi, after the said troops had beaten and routed eight hundred Iroquois Senecas,