Excerpt from Ontario Historical Society, Papers and Records, Vol. 5 It was nearly forty years afterwards that the first European descended the St. Law rence from Lake Ontario. After crossing the end of the lake from the said island) we entered a river some twelve leagues in length. Then they carried their canoes overland about half a league, at the end of which we entered a lake of about ten or twelve leagues in circumference, where there was a great quantity of game, such as swans, white cranes, bustards, ducks, teal, thrushes, larks, snipe, geese, and several other kinds of fowl beyond all computation, a good number of which I killed, which served us well while waiting to kill a stag, at which place we proceeded to a certain spot some ten leagues distant, where our Indians judged there were stags in abundance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.