Having treated at large of all that concerns _New England_ in general, both in reference to the Natives and the _English_ Planters, we shall conclude with a brief view of the Provinces of _Laconia_ and _Main_, as they are truly Describ’d (among other ingenuous Collections and Observations of the Affairs of _America_, and especially these Parts) by _Ferdinando Gorges_ Esq; Heir to the above-mention’d Sir _Ferdinando_, and thereby sole Lord of the said Provinces, onely contracting what hath been by him deliver’d more at large. [Sidenote: A brief Description of _Laconia_, a Province in _New England_.] Among divers Plantations of the _English_ happily Founded in _New England_, is a Province to the Landward, nam’d _Laconia_, so call’d by reason of the great Lakes therein, but by the ancient Inhabitants thereof it is call’d _The Countrey of the Troquois_: It lies between the Latitude of forty four and forty five Degrees, having the Rivers of _Sagadehock_ and _Merrimeck_ on the Sea-Coast of _New England_, Southerly from it; into each of which Rivers there is a short Passage, frequented by the Salvages inhabiting near the Lakes. Also it hath the great Lakes which tend towards _California_ in the South Sea on the West thereof: On the North thereof is the great River of _Canada_, into which the said River disgorgeth it self by a fair large River, well replenish’d with many fruitful Islands: The Air thereof is pure and wholesom, the Countrey pleasant, having some high Hills, full of goodly Forrests, and fair Valleys and Plains, fruitful in Corn, Vines, Chesnuts, Wallnuts, and infinite sorts of other Fruits, large Rivers well stor’d with Fish, and inviron’d with goodly Meadows full of Timber-trees. One of the great Lakes is call’d _The Lake of Troquois_, which together with a River of the same Name, running into the River of _Canada_, is sixty or seventy Leagues in length. In the Lake are four fair Islands, which are low and full of goodly Woods and Meadows, having store of Game for Hunting, as Stags, Fallow-Deer, Elks, Roe-Bucks, Beavers, and other sorts of Beasts which come from the Main Land to the said Islands. The Rivers which fall into the Lakes have in them good store of Beavers; of which Beasts, as also of the Elks, the Salvages make their chiefest Traffick. The said Islands have been inhabited heretofore by the Salvages, but are now abandon’d by reason of their late Wars one with another: They contain twelve or fifteen Leagues in length, and are seated commodiously for Habitation in the midst of the Lake, which abounds with divers kinds of wholesom Fish. From this Lake run two Rivers Southward, which fall into the Eastern and Southern Sea-Coast of _New England_.