Fourth Voyage of Peter Esprit Radisson (1659-1660) : an excerpt from Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson, being an account of his travels and experiences among the North American Indians, from 1652 to 1684.

              Peter Efprit Radiffon. 191
place caves very deepe, caufed by the fame violence. We muft looke to ourfelves, and take time w^^ our fmall boats. The coaft of rocks is 5 or 6 leagues, and there fcarce a place to putt a boat in affurance from the waves. When the lake is agitated the waves goeth in thefe concavities w*^ force and make a moft horrible noife, moft like the fliooting of great guns.
Some dayes afterwards we arrived to a very beautifull point of fand where there are 3 beautifull iflands,^^ that we called of y' Trinity ; there be 3 in triangle. From this place we difcovered a bay very deepe, where a river empties its felfe w^^ a noife for the quantitie & dept of y' water. We muft ftay there 3 dayes to wait for faire weather to make the Trainage, w"^^' was about 6 leagues wide. Soe dene, we came to the mouth of a fmall river, where we killed fome Orini- acks. We found meddows that weare fquared, and 10 leagues as fmooth as a boord. We went up fome 5 leagues further, where we found fome pools made by the caftors.    We muft
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Jacques and Raynbault preached the trodu6lion to Parkman's Difcovery of Faith to a concourfe of Indians at the the Great IVeJi. There can be no outlet of Lake Superior. Then came doubt but that the " two daring traders tbe havoc and defolation of the Iroquois who in 1658 penetrated to Lake Supe- war, and for years further exploration rior," and dwelt on the great river, were was arreted. At length, in 1658, two Radiffon and Des Grofeilliers, who re- daring traders penetrated to Lake Supe- peated their journey a few years after, rior, wintered there, and brought back defcribed in this narrative. The "Pic- the tales they had heard of the ferocious tured Rocks " and the " Doric Rock " Sioux, and of a great weftern river on were io named in Governor Cafs's and which they dwelt. Two years later the Schoolcraft's Travels in 1820. aged Jefuit M^fnard attempted to plant ^4 «Three beautiful iflands." In a miffion on the fouthern Ihore of the Cafs's and Schoolcraft's Travels (1820) lake, but perifhed in the foreft by fam- through the chain of American lakes ine or the tomahawk. Allouez fucceeded thefe iflands are called Huron Iflands, him, explored a part of Lake Superior, and the bay beyond is marked on their and heard in his turn of the Sioux and map "Keweena Bay." their great river, the "Meffipi."—In-