. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. im m r :. Ji^nu^ry , The old ti>hacp^'pipe^ of the hi^ians ^re lik^- ^viip made of cUy, or pot-ftone, or ferpeptinp- flone. T}>e firft foft ^re (haped like our
. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. im m r :. Ji^nu^ry , The old ti>hacp^'pipe^ of the hi^ians ^re lik^- ^viip made of cUy, or pot-ftone, or ferpeptinp- flone. T}>e firft foft ^re (haped like our to- bacco-pipes, though much coarfer aqd not fo well made. The taibe 13 thick and fliort, hardly an inch Jong, hut fometirpes as long as a finger; their colour comes ne^refl to that of our tobac- co-pipes which have bieen long ufed. Their tobacco-pipes of pot-flone are made of the fame flone as their kettles. Some of them are pretty well made, though they had neither iron nor lleel. But befides thefe kinds of tobacco-pipes, W⬠find ^mother fort of pipes, which are made with grcjit ingenuity, of a very fine red pot- (lone, or a kind of ferpentine marble. They ^re very fcarce, and feldom made ufe of by any other than the Indian Sachems, or elders. The fine red ftone, of which thefe pipes are made, is like wife very fcarce, and is found only in the country of thofe Indians who are called Ingouez, and who, according to father Charkvoix, live on the other fide of the river Mtjfiftppi *. The Indians themfelves commonly value a pipe of this kind as much as a piece of filvcr of the fame fize, and fometimes they make it ftill dearer. Of the fame kind of ftone commonly confifts their pipe of peace, which the French call calu* met de paix, and which they make ufe of in their treaties of peace, and alliances. Moft authors who have wrote of thefe nations mention this inftrument, and I jntehd to fpeak of it when an opportunity offers. â ⢠See hb *Jmrnat hijiorique S'un 'v»y<ige
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