Voyages of Samuel De Champlain - Volume I Part 25
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12. Lac de Soissons So named after Charles de Bourbon, Count de Soissons, a Viceroy of New France in 1612. _Vide antea_, p 112. Now known as the Lake of Two Mountains.

13. A bay at the mouth of a river of this name now called St. Paul's Bay, near the Isle aux Coudres. _Vide_ Vol. II. note 305.

14. _Vide antea_, note 241.

15. An island in the River St Lawrence west of Tadoussac, still called Hare Island. _Vide antea_, note 148.

16. Figure 2 is not found on the map, and it is difficult to identify the place referred to.

17. Bluets, _Vaccinium Canadense_, the Canada blueberry. Champlain says it is a small fruit very good for eating. _Vide_ Quebec ed. Voyage of 1615, p. 509.

18. _Vide_ Vol. II. p. 176.

19. For _Lac S. Joseph_, read Lac S. Charles.

20. Champlain here calls the Chaudiere the River of the Etechemins, notwithstanding he had before given the name to that now known as the St. Croix. _Vide_ Vol. II. pp. 30, 47, 60. There is still a little east of the Chaudiere a river now known as the Etechemin; but the channel of the Chaudiere would be the course which the Indians would naturally take to reach the head-waters of the Kennebec, where dwelt the Abenaquis.

21. River Verte, entering the St. Lawrence on the south of Green Island, opposite to Tadoussac.

22. Green Island.

23. Jacques Cartier River.

24. Near the Batiscan.

25. Nicolet. _Vide_ Laverdiere's note, Quebec ed. Vol. III. p. 328.

26. River St. Francis.

27. Riviere du Loup.

28. River Richelieu.

29. This number is wanting.

30. The Falls of St Louis, above Montreal. The figures are wanting.

31. One of the small rivers between Cobequid Bay and c.u.mberland Strait.

32. Moose Hunting, on the west of Gaspe.

33. Argentenay.--_Laverdiere_.

34. Champlain had not been in this region, and consequently obtained his information from the savages. There is no such lake as he represents on his map, and this island producing pure copper may have been Isle Royale, in Lake Superior.

35. The Falls of St. Mary.

36. York River.

37. The Ristigouche.

38. Now called North Point.

39. Probably Gold River, flowing into Mahone Bay.

40. Still called Port La Tour.

41. Halifax Harbor. _Vide_ Vol. II. note 266.

42. _Vide_ Vol. II. note 192.

43. Now Cape Chignecto, in the Bay of Fundy.

44. Advocates' Harbor.

45. Richmond Island _Vide_ note 42 Vol. I. and note 123 Vol. II. of this work.

46. The Isles of Shoals. _Vide_ Vol. II. note 142.

47. Boston Bay.

48. Martha's Vineyard _Vide_ Vol. II. note 227.

49. Merrimac Bay, as it may be appropriately called stretching from Little Boar's Head to Cape Anne.

50. These islands appear to be in Cas...o...b..y.

51. The figures are not on the map. The reference is to the Scoudic, commonly known as the River St Croix.

52. There is probably a typographical error in the figures. The pa.s.sage should read "66 or 67 years ago."

53. Now Old Point Comfort.

54. Jamestown, Virginia.

55. _Vide_ Vol. II. note 95.

56. This should read 1609. _Vide_ Vol. II. note 348.

57. Lake George _Vide antea_, note 63. p. 93.

58. This cape still bears the same name.

59. This number is wanting.

60. This river comes from the Lake of Two Mountains, is a branch of the Ottawa separating the Island of Montreal from the Isle Jesus and flows into the main channel of the Ottawa two or three miles before it reaches the eastern end of the Island of Montreal.

61. The Chaudiere Falls are near the site of the city of Ottawa. _Vide antea_, p. 120.