Voyages of Samuel De Champlain Volume I Part 23

22. _Riviere Saincte Suzanne_. [27]

23. _Riviere des Yrocois_, very beautiful, with many islands and meadows.

It comes from Lac de Champlain, five or fix days' journey in length, abounding in fish and game of different kinds. Vines, nut, plum, and chestnut trees abound in many places. There are meadows and very pretty islands in it. To reach it, it is necessary to pa.s.s one large and one small fall. [28]

24. _Sault de Riviere du Saguenay_, fifty leagues from Tadoussac, ten or twelve fathoms high. [29]

25. _Grand Sault_, which falls some fifteen feet, amid a large number of islands. It is half a league in length and three leagues broad. [30]

26. _Port au Mouton_.

27. _Baye de Campseau_.

28. _Cap Baturier_, on the Isle de Sainct Jean.

29. A river by way of which they go to the Baye Francoise. [31]

30. _Cha.s.se des Eslans_. [32]

31. _Cap de Richelieu_, on the eastern part of the Isle d'Orleans. [33]

32. A small bank near Isle du Cap Breton.

33. _Riviere des Puans_, coming from a lake where there is a mine of pure red copper. [34]

34. _Sault de Gaston_, nearly two leagues broad, and discharging into the Mer Douce. It comes from another very large lake, which, with the Mer Douce, have an extent of thirty days' journey by canoe, according to the report of the savages. [35]

_Returning to the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Coast of La Cadie_.

35. _Riuiere de Gaspey_. [36]

36. _Riuiere de Chaleu_. [37]

37. Several Islands near Miscou and the harbor of Miscou, between two islands.

38. _Cap de l'Isle Sainct Jean_. [38]

39. _Port au Rossignol_.

40. _Riuiere Platte_. [39]

41. _Port du Cap Naigre_. On the bay by this cape there is a French settlement, where Sieur de la Tour commands, from whom it was named Port la Tour. The Reverend Recollect Fathers dwelt here in 1630. [40]

42. _Baye du Cap de Sable_.

43. _Baye Saine_. [41]

44. _Baye Courante_, with many islands abounding in game, good fishing, and places favorable for vessels. [42]

45. _Port du Cap Fourchu_, very pleasant, but very nearly dry at low tide.

Near this place are many islands, with good hunting.

47. _Pet.i.t Pa.s.sage de Isle Longue_. Here there is good cod-fishing.

48. _Cap des Deux Bayes_. [43]

49. _Port des Mines_, where, at low tide, small pieces of very pure copper are to be found in the rocks along the sh.o.r.e. [44]

50. _Isles de Bacchus_, very pleasant, containing many vines, nut, plum, and other trees. [45]

51. Islands near the mouth of the river Chouacoet.

52. _Isles a.s.sez Hautes_, three or four in number, two or three leagues distant from the land, at the mouth of Baye Longue. [46]

53. _Baye aux Isles_, with suitable harbors for vessels. The country is very good, and settled by numerous savages, who till the land. In these localities are numerous cypresses, vines, and nut-trees. [47]

54. _La Soupconneuse_, an island nearly a league distant from the land.

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55. _Baye Longue_. [49]

56. _Les Sept Isles_. [50]

57. _Riuiere des Etechemins_. [51] _The Virginias, where the English are settled, between the 36th and 37th degrees of lat.i.tude. Captains Ribaut and Laudonniere made explorations 36 or 37 years ago along the coasts adjoining Florida, and established a settlement_. [52]

58. Several rivers of the Virginias, flowing into the Gulf.

59. Coast inhabited by savages who till the soil, which is very good.

60. _Poincte Confort_. [53]

61. _Immestan_. [54]

62. _Chesapeacq Bay_.

63. _Bedabedec_, the coast west of the river Pemetegoet. [55]

64. _Belles Prairies_.

65. Place on Lac Champlain where the Yroquois were defeated by Sieur Champlain in 1606. [56]

66. _Pet.i.t Lac_, by way of which they go to the Yroquois, after pa.s.sing over that of Champlain. [57]

67. _Baye des Trespa.s.sez_, on the island of Newfoundland.

68. _Chappeau Rouge_.

69. _Baye du Sainct Esprit_.

70. _Les Vierges_.