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convenient, to keep any Garrison at La Bay. The Bay is about ninety miles long, and in some places, thirty, twenty and fifteen broad, and lays nearly from North East to South West. At entering the Bay, from Lake Michigan, is a string of Islands extending from North to South, called the grand traverse, about 30 miles [[note]] Grand Traverse [[/note]] in length, which serves to facilitate the passage for Canoes, as the South Eastern side is the nighest and best navigation; on the North East end of the Green Bay, just on entering the Bay, from the North end of Lake Michigan, is the Bay of Noquets extending about North West - to a considerable depth. The Islands in the grand traverse, are mostly small and rocky, many of the rocks of an amazing size, and looked as if they had been hewn by some artists; on the largest and best of these Islands, is a Town of the Ottowas, where I found a very considerable Chief of that Nation, who with his Wariors, received me with all the customary honors they could possibly show, tho to strangers it might appear an odd way of communicating. when I approached within about threescore rods from the shore, they began with their Few de Joy, their Pieces being loaded with Balls, discharged then in such a manner as to fly about four yards above my head, at the same time running from one Tree and Stump to another, shouting as in the heat of Battle, this surprized me a little untill I found it to be the manner [[catchword]] in [[/catchword]]
