ContLQuing our route along the west side of the Lake, contemplating the country, I saw on the east side very high mountains capped with Snow. I asked the Indians if those parts were inhabited 1 They answered me, Yes, and that they were Iroquois, and that there were in those parts beautiful vallies, and fields fertile in corn as good as I had ever eaten in tlie country, witli an infinitude of other fruits, and that the Lake extended close to the mountains, which were, according to my judgment, 15 leagues from us. I saw others, to the South, not less high than the former ; only, that they were without snow. The Indians told me it was there we were to go to meet their enemies, and that they were thickly inhabited, & that we must pass by a waterfall^ whicli I afterwards saw, and tlience enter another lake^* three or four leagues long, and liaving arrived at its head, there were 4 leagues overland to be travelled to pass to a river* which flows towards the coast of the Almouchiquois, tending towards that of the Almouchiquois % and that tliey were oD^y

1 Sagard mentions in his Graiul Voyage du Pays des Ilurons; Paris 1632, ha> ing seen one of tliese fish in the Huron Country ami (ieseribes it in the sam terms as Champlain. Compare the above description with tliat of the Oar fish and Bo/iy Pike, in Nat. Hist, of N : York: Part III. Reptiles and Amphibia pp. 227 and 271, and corresponding Plates. Prof: .\gassiz mentions a simila; fish in a recent work on the Natural History of the Upper Lakes.