North-Carolina Chronicle; or Fayetteville Gazette

              the north carolina chronicle ; or fayettevilk gazette — no 1 4 of vol ii ]— m o n d a y i e c e m b e r 13 i79 o total no 66 histort carver's travels continued rpwo very large rivers esap'y thtm j ieires into this i^kt on die north tiiid north ea.:l fids ; ic is called nipe gon rirer or as the french pronounce ic ihe allanipegon which leads to a band of the chipewaj inhabiting a lake of the fame name and the other is term ed the micfaipicoert u r;cr tlfe fource of vhich is iitua:cd towards james's bay fiosn w enc there but a ihort carriage t ano er rirrr which empties ttfelf into ti.al bay at a fort belonging t^the com pany i was ; y this pafiagc ihat a par ty of french frem mkhiliirnackir.ac in vaded ihe fe tkments of that focicty in the reign of qusen anne having t.ikr n and destroyed their fort th?y bjought the cannon which th y found in tliem to tle forties from whe&ce hey had iihved : ihefe werefma ibrais pieces and remain there to this prefenttime ; havi g thro the afual revolution of fortune re umed to the poilefeon n tl-tir + crmer makers not far from the nipegon is a fmail river that juit before it enters he lake has a perpendicular f.;tl ficm the top of a mountain of more than fix hundred ice '. being very narrow it appears at a diftancc like a white garter iufpended h ihe air a few indian inhabit round the east ern toiders cf thi lake fuppefed to he th remains of ihe algonkrns who for jneily pro felled ihts country but vhr hate reen neavly extirpated by the 1 roqnois of canada l'-ke superior has near lorry livers that fall into it f«me of which arc of a confiderable f.v:e or the fouth f o.c of ic is a remmkable print or cap rf about fixty ir.ilts in le gth called point chegomegan it slight .; pro perly be termtd a peninfttla ai h i • ear ly feparared from the cof.uk • r c-n vie e^ii fide by a narrow bay r h 1 ertcn fr^rn eaft to weft carers h^v fr;or portage acio s th ifthmus s if her coaf i f round he v more han an hir^rej t vc bout th.^t j il j ii cc to the v tape jiut defcribedj a con:;d ! rer falls into h • late the head of which is c mpoferi dj a great a/femblage of imall fti earns this river is remarkable for the abundance of virgin copper that is foudd on and near its basks a metal which is met wi;h alio in fevcral other places on this caaft j okferred that many of the frr.a 1 iiiands particularly thoie on the caftern ihnres were coyered with cop^r ore they appeared like beds of ccfpperas of which many tons kiy in a ftnall p-.icc a company of adventurers from england began foon after the conqneft or canada to oriiig away forr.e of this metal but the diltra&ed fituation of af fairs in america lias obliged them to re ur-quiih their fchi me h rrright hi fat tuie tiraes be mad a very advantageous trade as the metal which celts nothing " on he ipot and requires but lktle ex perice to get i on beard could be con veyed la boats or canoes through the ' falls of st marie to the iflc of sl joieph whice lies at hc bottom of the freights near the cntraace into lake h.;rpr f'rom thence ie night be put on board larger vdrls and in them tranfpoitei acrofs * thac lake to the falls of niagara ; there being carried by ian j acroi the p rtage it ttiipji be conveyed without nu'.hob ftruftion to q^bec the chsapneis and caic with whicfe any quantity of it may be procured will make up for the length cf w jy that.it is neceflary to tranfport it before it reaches the ica-c»a and enable the proprietors to fend it to foreign mar kets on as good terms as ir can be ex ported frero ether countries lake superior abounds with a variety of fifh the principal and beft are the trout and httrgeon which rr:ay caught at alrr.oft any feafonin tbegreatefl abun dance the trouts in rcneral weigh about tweive pounds but fome are caught that exceed fifty befidtstheie a fpecie of vhite rlfh is taken iji great quantities htre rr cft?ble a had in their fnape but they are rath«r thicker and lefj beny j they weigh about four pnunds each and arc of a delicious tafte there are ukcwife many forts of fmaller aih in great plenty here a d which may be ; aken with eafe ; arr ng thefe is a ore refembiing thg herrinn thar are ge rtcrally made ufs of as a bait ior the trout very fraall crabs not larger tha 11 half a crown piece are found both in this and lakcmichegiin this lake is as much afrectecisy ilorms as the atlantic ccean — the wares ran as high and arc equally as cargercus to fliips it difcharges its waters from the fouth eail coriicr through the freights of st marie at the upper end of thefe ftreights ftands a fort that receives its name from them commanded by monf cadot a french canadian who being proprietor of the foil is ftill permitted to keep pofieffion of it near this fort is a very ilrong rapid againft which tho lit is impofiible for canoes to afcend yet . whin conducted by careful pilots they might pafs down withont danger though lak superior as i have before obierved is fupplied by near forty rivers , many of which are confiderable ones yet it does not appear that one-tenth part of the waters which arc conveyed into it by tliefe rivers are earned off at this evacu ation how fuch a fnpcrabundar.ee of , water can be dirpokd of as ic muft cer , tainly be by iomc means or orher vi'h our which the circumference of the lake . would be continually enlarging i know not : hat it do«s not empty iticlf as x the mediterranean fea is fnppnfed to do by an urder current which perpetually counteract that near the furface is cer tain ; for the ftream which falls ove^-the rock is not more than five or fix feet in depth and the whole of it pa£ks en hro the hreights into the adjacent^lakc ncr is it probable that fo great a quantity can be abitrbed by exhalations 5 orfequen.t ly they murt find a paffage thirnghfoms fubterrarean aviti?s deep uniathem able and never f o be explored t^t falls ot sr marie do not defcend : jjerpchdicularly as tho.e of niagara or . s anthoay do bu confift of a rapid which conlinr.es near three quarter of a m3e oarer which csnecs wcli piloted might pafs • ., at the bottom of thefe fclls batore has formed a naofl commodfous liaiion for catchsag the f.fh whivh arc to fcc found ther«f in immenfe quautitk per ions ft as ding n the rocks tha.t lie adja cent toit may take with if rii g rttr about the ironths.of sep'rmhtr ar.i oc tcber the white fcfli bcfcrc-mtntionc