Betty B.
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 23 Aug
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On the north side we saw a very pleasant river extending some twenty leagues into the interior, which I named Saint Suzanne.
On the south side there are two, one called Rivier Du Pont, the other Rivier Degen, which are very pretty and in a fine and fertile country.
The water is almost still in the lake, which is full of fish.
On the north bank there are seen some slight elevations at a distance of some twelve or fifteen leagues from the lake.
After crossing the lake we passed a large number of islands of various sizes, containing many nut trees and vines, and fine meadows with quantities of game and wild animals, which go over from the mainland to these islands.
Fish are here more abundant than in any other part of the river that we have seen.
From these islands we went to the mouth of the river of the Iroquois.
Where we stayed two days, refreshing ourselves with good venison, birds and fish which the savages gave us.
Here there sprang up among them some difference of opinion on the subject of the war, so that a portion only determined to go with me, while the others returned to their country with their wives and the merchandise which they had obtained by barter.
I set out accordingly from the fall of the Iroquois River on the second of July.
All the savages set to carrying their canoes, arms, and baggage over land, some half a league.
in order to pass by the violence and strength of the fall, which was speedily accomplished.
We set out the next day, continuing our course in the river as far as the entrance of the lake.
There are many pretty islands here, low and containing very fine woods and meadows, with abundance of fowl and such animals of the chase as stags, fallow deer, fawns, roebucks, bears, and others, which go from the mainland to these islands, and
We captured a large number of these animals.
There are also many beavers, not only in this river, but also in numerous other little ones that flow into it.
These regions, although they are pleasant, are not inhabited by any savages on account of their wars, but they withdraw as far as possible from the rivers into the interior in order not to be suddenly surprised.
The next day we entered the lake, which is of great extent, say eighty or a hundred leagues long, where I saw four fine islands, ten, twelve and fifteen leagues long and
which were formerly inhabited by the savages, like the river of the Iroquois, but they have been abandoned since the wars of the savages with one another prevailed.
There are also many rivers falling into the lakes.
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