Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1751 edition. Excerpt: ...the fifh, which at a great depth it would be other-wife difficult to hit. I faw upon one of their canoes in the morning a 'large piece of bark fpread a-crofs. On this lay gravel and fand, and on thefe coals and afhes, which I fuppofed had been a fire, and the gravel placed there to fave the bark. And I took it to be a de-fign both to allure and fee to ftrike the fifh. 2$th. Our guide, and feveral other Indians, lead us to the canoes belonging to the town, into one of which we got full of hopes of going by water, but were much chagrin'd to find ourfelves only paddled crofs the water, where we unwillingly took out our cloaths, victuals and blankets, and carried them on our backs following our guides, who were now increafed to three. We had 12 miles down the river by land, moft of the way middling land, fome white pine atid fpruce groves to pafs through, but moft of the way in fight of the river, which is very rapid most of the way to the lake. On the point formed by the entrance of the river, ftands the fort or trading caftle, it is a ftrong ftone houfe, iucompaffed with a ftone wall near 20 feet high, and 120 paces round, built of large fquared ftones; very curious for their foftnefs, I cut my name in it with my knife. The town confifts of about 70 logyo loghoufes, of which one half are in a row near the river, the other half oppofite to them, on the other fide of a fair were two ftreets divided by a row of pofts in the midft. Where each Indian has his houfe to lay his goods, and where any of the traders may traffick with him. This is furely an excellent regulation for preventing the traders from impofing on the Indians, a pradtife they have been formerly too much guilty of, and which has frequently involved the Englifh colonies in...
