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     Petitcodiac empties from the east into French Bay 
     
     (Bay of Fundy). There is a portage of six leagues from 
     
     one river to the other, a good road; and there are six 
     
     or eight French dwellings on the Petitcodiac. 
     
    

    
     They ascended the said river about two leagues and 
     
     made the portage, Ouaigesmock (Washademoak), also 
     
     six leagues, to another river whose name they did not 
     
     know but thought to be the Chiamaniste (Salmon 
     
     River); (more probably the Canaan or Washade- 
     
     moak). There were no dwellings along this portage. 
     
    

    
     They followed this river, on the ice for 20 leagues, 
     
     to Gensec (Jemseg), a French village of 30 or 40 
     
     houses, situated a little this side of its confluence with 
     
     the River St. John, and 25 leagues from the French 
     
     fort at the confluence of the River St. John and the 
     
     Bay of Fundy. 
     
    

    
     Jemseg is situated on the left bank of the River St. 
     
     John. From here they crossed the river and travelled 
     
     along the right bank to Hautepack (Springhill), an- 
     
     other village of French and Indians, Amalécites (Mali- 
     
     seets), the residence of Pére Germain, Jesuit missionary 
     
     to these tribes. They reckoned 10 leagues from Jemseg 
     
     to Hautepack. 
     
    

    
     From the village of Hlautepack, travelling always on 
     
     the ice of the St. John, they proceeded to Medoctec 
     
     (Meductie Flat), also a village of the Maliseet and on 
     
     the right bank of the river. They reckoned the distance 
     
     between the last two villages at 30 leagues, which they 
     
     travelled in three days. 
     
    

    
     From Medoctec they went to Grand Falls, partly on 
     
     the ice and partly by land, as the river had overflowed 
     
     its banks and in places was not frozen. They made only 
     
    
   
   
    
     80 leagues in 11 days owing to the condition of the 
     
     roads.