Voyages of Samuel De Champlain Volume I Part 22

CHAMPLAIN'S EXPLANATION

OF THE

CARTE DE LA NOVVELLE FRANCE.

1632.

TABLE FOR FINDING THE PROMINENT PLACES ON THE MAP.

A. _Baye des Isles_. [1]

B. _Calesme_. [2]

C. _Baye des Trespa.s.ses_.

D. _Cap de Leuy_. [3]

E. _Port du Cap de Raye_, where the cod-fishery is carried on.

F. The north-west coast of Newfoundland, but little known.

G. Pa.s.sage to the north at the 52d degree. [4]

H. _Isle St. Paul_, near Cape St Lawrence

I. _Isle de Sasinou_, between Monts Deserts and Isles aux Corneilles. [5]

K. _Isle de Mont-real_, at the Falls of St. Louis, some eight or nine leagues in circuit. [6]

L. _Riuiere Jeannin_. [7]

M. _Riuiere St. Antoine_, [8]

N. Kind of salt water discharging into the sea, with ebb and flood, abundance of fish and sh.e.l.l-fish, and in some places oysters of not very good flavor. [9]

P. _Port aux Coquilles_, an island at the mouth of the River St. Croix, with good fis.h.i.+ng. [10]

Q. Islands where there is fis.h.i.+ng. [11]

R. _Lac de Soissons_. [12]

S. _Baye du Gouffre_. [13]

T. _Isle de Monts Deserts_, very high.

V. _Isle S. Barnabe_, in the great river near the Bic.

X. _Lesquemain_, where there is a small river, abounding in salmon and trout, near which is a little rocky islet, where there was formerly a station for the whale fishery. [14]

Y. _La Pointe aux Allouettes_, where, in the month of September, there are numberless larks, also other kinds of game and sh.e.l.l-fish.

Z. _Isle aux Lieures_, so named because some hares were captured there when it was first discovered. [15]

2. _Port Lesquille_, dry at low tide, where are two brooks coming from the mountains. [16]

3. _Port au Saulmon_, dry at low tide. There are two small islands here, abounding, in the season, with strawberries, raspberries, and _bluets_.

[17] Near this place is a good roadstead for vessels, and two small brooks flowing into the harbor.

4. _Riuiere Platte_, coming from the mountains, only navigable for canoes.

It is dry here at low tide a long distance out. Good anchorage in the offing.

5. _Isles aux Couldres_, some league and a half long, containing in their season great numbers of rabbits, partridges, and other kinds of game. At the southwest point are meadows, and reefs seaward. There is anchorage here for vessels between this island and the mainland on the north.

6. _Cap de Tourmente_, a league from which Sieur de Champlain had a building erected, which was burned by the English in 1628. Near this place is Cap Brusle, between which and Isle aux Coudres is a channel, with eight, ten, and twelve fathoms of water. On the south the sh.o.r.e is muddy and rocky. To the north are high lands, &c.

7. _Isle d'Orleans_, six leagues in length, very beautiful on account of its variety of woods, meadows, vines, and nuts. The western point of this island is called Cap de Conde.

8. _Le Sault de Montmorency_, twenty fathoms high, [18] formed by a river coming from the mountains, and discharging into the St. Lawrence, a league and a half from Quebec.

9. _Riviere S. Charles_, coming from Lac S. Joseph, [19] very beautiful with meadows at low tide. At full tide barques can go up as far as the first fall. On this river are built the churches and quarters of the reverend Jesuit and Recollect Fathers. Game is abundant here in spring and autumn.

10. _Riviere des Etechemins_, [20] by which the savages go to Quinebequi, crossing the country with difficulty, on account of the falls and little water. Sieur de Champlain had this exploration made in 1628, and found a savage tribe, seven days from Quebec, who till the soil, and are called the Abenaquiuoit.

11. _Riviere de Champlain_, near that of Batisquan, north-west of the Grondines.

12. _Riviere de Sauvages_ [21]

13. _Isle Verte_, five or six leagues from Tadoussac. [22]

14. _Isle de Cha.s.se_.

15. _Riviere Batisquan_, very pleasant, and abounding in fish.

16. _Les Grondines_, and some neighboring islands. A good place for hunting and fis.h.i.+ng.

17. _Riviere des Esturgeons & Saulmons_, with a fall of water from fifteen to twenty feet high, two leagues from Saincte Croix, which descends into a small pond discharging into the great river St. Lawrence. [23]

18. _Isle de St. Eloy_, with a pa.s.sage between the island and the mainland on the north. [24]

19. _Lac S. Pierre_, very beautiful, three to four fathoms in depth, and abounding in fish, surrounded by hills and level tracts, with meadows in places. Several small streams and brooks flow into it.

20. _Riviere du Gast_, very pleasant, yet containing but little water. [25]

21. _Riviere Sainct Antoine_. [26]