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History

In vigor and talent for progress they were far behind their numerically weaker neighbors, the Iroquois.

These latter, a separate people, speaking a language distinctively their own, occupied originally the territory now comprised within the State of New York, but their claims were grad ually extended over the strip of country fringing the north shore of the St Lawrence and Lakes Ontario and Erie.

A branch of the Iroquois, the Hurons, occupied the eastern shore of the lake which bears their name, as well as the shores of Georgian Bay.

As they were closely con nected and on friendly terms with the Algonquins, they seem to have settled in bands down in the valley of the Ottawa and even along the lower St Lawrence.

In fact there is reason for believing that the savages whom Cartier met at the Bay of Chaleur in 1534 were Hurons.