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and Young ones, I went near sixty miles above the falls, to the River St. Louis named by father Hennipin. Decemr. 2d. I returned again to the entrance of the River St. Piere, when I proceeded up that River about two hundred miles, a little above the forks, where a branch from the South, almost joins the Messorie River; by the best accounts from the Indians, it appears to me that the Messorie and St. Piere Rivers, tho' near twelve hundred miles apart, in their junction with the Mississippi, yet these two Rivers have some of their head branches, as near as a mile of each other, the River St, Pierre's Northern branch rises from a number of Lakes, near under the shining Mountains; It is from some of those Lakes, that a Capital branch of the River Bourbon has its source, that runs into Hudsons Bay, by the intelligence that I received from the Naudowessie, the time I resided among them, which was upwards of seven Months, in which time, I took the utmost pains to learn their Language, and by the accounts I afterwards had from the Assinnipoils, who speak the same tongue, being a revolted band from the Naudowessie, who are inveterate enemies to each other; and the Killislenoes, neighbours to the Assinnipoils, who speak the Chipeway tongue, and inhabit the heads of the River Bourbon; I say from those nations, together with my own observations, I learned that the four most Capital Rivers on the [[catchword]] Continent [[/catchword]]
