The Lake of Two Mountains is an enlargement of the Ottawa River, near its mouth, above Montreal. On this lake is situated the Sulpitian mission town of Oka. This is a union of two early missions—one, founded about 1677 on Montreal Island for Iroquois converts, weakened during the Iroquois War, and removed in 1704 to the Sault au Récollet, being finally located on the Lake of Two Mountains about 1720; the second, or Algonkin mission, was first called La Présentation and situated on Montreal Island near Lachine; the site was abandoned in 1685, and the remnants of the mission Indians gathered at Bout de l’Isle (the other end of the same island), where the mission was called St. Louis. Again removed (1706–07) to the Isle aux Tourtres, it was permanently located on the Lake of Two Mountains between 1721 and 1726. There are still about four hundred Indians located on the reserve at the lake. See Canadian Department of Indian Affairs _Report_, 1901, p. 49. The account given by Long in the following pages, of the Chippewa division of this mission, is the best known—their intermarriage with the Indians of the other mission villages at Caughnawaga and St. Regis, their cultivation of the soil, and their semi-civilized habits.—ED. Footnote 39: Peter Kalm, Swedish naturalist and botanist, was sent to America to study its flora, and travelled extensively between 1748 and 1751. The English edition of his travels was published in London in 1772.—ED. Footnote 40: James Adair, a trader among the Cherokee and Chickasaw Indians, 1735–75. He published a _History of the American Indians_ (London, 1775), which attempts to prove their relationship to the Jews. It contains, notwithstanding, much valuable information, particularly in regard to the Southern tribes.—ED. Footnote 41: This was Rev. John Sargent, missionary to the Stockbridge Indians, in Western Massachusetts.—ED. Footnote 42: On the subject of Indian dances see _Jesuit Relations_, index. Also Grant, in Masson, _Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest_, ii, pp. 335–337.—ED. Footnote 43: This origin of the name La Chine is generally accepted by historians. See Girouard, _Lake St. Louis and La Salle_ (Montreal, 1893), pp. 32, 33.—ED. Footnote 44: The “bourgeois” was the chief trader, to whom the voyageurs were bound by engagements for service. The term was also often applied to the trader’s agent or clerk, when the latter was in command of the expedition. See Turner, “Fur Trade in Wisconsin,” Wisconsin Historical Society _Proceedings_, 1889, pp. 77–82.—ED. Footnote 45: