There Comes Many
Sorte Of Birds That Makes There Nest Here, The Goilants, Which Is A White
Sea-Bird Of The Bignesse Of Pigeon, Which Makes Me Believe What The Wildmen
Told Me Concerning The Sea To Be Neare Directly To The Point.
It's like a
great Portail, by reason of the beating of the waves.
The lower part of
that oppening is as bigg as a tower, and grows bigger in the going up.
There is, I believe, 6 acres of land. Above it a shipp of 500 tuns could
passe by, soe bigg is the arch. I gave it the name of the portail of St
Peter, because my name is so called, and that I was the first Christian
[Footnote: "The first Christian that ever saw it." French Jesuits and
fur-traders pushed deeper and deeper into the wilderness of the northern
lakes. In 1641 Jacques and Raynbault preached the Faith to a concourse of
Indians at the outlet of Lake Superior. Then came the havoc and desolation
of the Iroquois war, and for years further exploration was arrested. At
length, in 1658, two daring traders penetrated to Lake Superior, wintered
there, and brought back the tales they had heard of the ferocious Sioux,
and of a great western river on which they dwelt. Two years later the aged
Jesuit Mesnard attempted to plant a mission on the southern shore of the
lake, but perished in the forest by famine or the tomahawk. Allouez
succeeded him, explored a part of Lake Superior, and heard in his turn of
the Sioux and their great river, the "Messipi." - Introduction to Parkman's
Discovery of the Great West.
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