A river issues from this which discharges into the Great Lake of the Entouhonorons ' . ilnd having traversed this Lake, w^e passed a w^ater fall, proceeding always down along the course of said river, about sixty four leagues, which is the entrance of tlie said valley of the Entoulionorons, and passed by land five rapids (sauis), some four or five leagues long, where there are several lakes of pretty considerable extent ; the said river which flows between them also abounds with good fish,

1 Lake Ontario, presumed to hare been so called by the Hurons from tlie fact .if their having to cross it to get to the AiUonoronons, or Senecas, who lived jn the South asile Of it.

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and all this country is very tine and agreeable. In several places along the banks, the trees would seem to have been planted for ornament. All this coimtry was formerly inhabited by Savages, who have since been constrained to abandon it. tlirough fear of their enemies. Vines and nuts are in great quantities, and grapes come to matui-ity there, but they leave always a sharp sour taste, which proceeds from want of cultivation ; but those that have been cultivated in tliese parts are

of pretty good flavour.

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We continued along the border of tlie Lake of the Entoulionorons, always hunting as above mentioned ; being there, we crossed over at one of the extremities, tending Eastward, wliich is the beginning (Ventree) of the river Saint Lawrence, in the parallel of forty-three degrees of Latitude. There are some beautiful and very large Islands in tliis passage. We made about fourteen leagues to cross to the other side of the Lake, proceeding southward, towards the enemy's country. The Indians concealed all their cajioes in the woods, neai- the bank.