It is more than 40 toises high on all sides, except one place which slopes where there is a triangular rocky point, and in the middle a pond of salt water and a number of birds that build their nests in this Island. i River of the Algomequins. [Ottawa.] From Sault St. Louis to near the lake of the Bisserens, there there are more than 80 Rapids big and little, to be passed, either by land or by force of oars, or by towing on land by ropes. Some of these Rapids are very dangerous, especially coming down.

Petun Nation is a tribe tliat cultivates that plant [Tobacco] in which they drive a considerable trade witli tlie other nations. They have lir^^e villages, enclosed with timber and phint Indian corn.*

Cheveux relevez, are savages wliich do not wear a breech cloth and go quite naked except in winter when they clotli themselves in skins, wliicli they lay aside going from home into the interior. They are great hunters, fisliermen and voyageurs, cultivate the soil and plant Indian corn ; dry blue and straw-

1 Called by the French Quicun.mtates, Kionontates, or Tiononlates; by 'ho Englisli, Dionondadies. It was one of the live confederated Huron Tribes. After the destruction of the Hurons by the Iroquois in 164!), a remnant of the Dionondadies took refuge among the Chippeways of Lake Superior, and arc referred to in Oongan'stimeas in the vicinity of Michilimakinac. Thry removed afterwards to Detroit and are found in 1721, taking a leading part in the councils of the western tribes.