1 Sagart calls this tribe, the Antlatahouats, who wear their hair topped up in front, " more erect than a Jady's peruke."

2 The Neutral Nation were called Attiuo ndas by the French. They wore four or five days journey, says Sagart, south of the Quieunontates. Chai. jilain locates them on the south shore of Lake Erie; but in subsequent maps they arc laiit down on the north shore. Sagart estimates the number of their warriors, in 1625, at 5 to 6,000, and says their country was nearly one hundred leagues in extent.

The Assistague-eronnons were called, also, the '<F re Nation;'' Seesfa, or Assista sigiiif) ing, in the Huron ton^^ue, jirt, and Eioiim'ins, Nation or People. This nation was located in the country near the Great Lakes, where Charlevoix t. I., 447, mentions a tribe under the name of Mascontins, or Nniion du Ftu. In 1721 , they wore found in VV isconsin and the north of 111 inois. The name JMascontin signifies literally, a Prairie. See Gallatin's Synopsis, GI.

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lakes and fine islands ; the country agreeable and abounding in hunting and lisliing ; fit to be settled were it not for the wars the Indians liave the one against the other.

Tiie Mer douce is a vast lake in which are an infinite number of Islands ; it is very deep and abounds with fish of all sorts and of a monstrous size which are caught at divers times and seasons as in the wide ocean. The south coast is much more agreeable tlian the north, where there is a quantity of rocks and a great many Elk [Caribou.)