Having constructed a small barque of about fourteen tons, and taken on board a complement of men and such material as was needed for his settlement, he proceeded up the River St. Lawrence. On the fourth day the French approached the lofty headland jutting out upon the river and forcing it into a narrow channel, to which, on account of this narrowing, the Algonquins had given the significant name of Quebec.[379] Here on a belt of land at the base of a lofty precipice, along the water’s edge, on the 3d day of July, 1608, Champlain laid the foundations of the city which still bears the name of Quebec. [Illustration: QUEBEC, 1613. [A fac-simile of Champlain’s plan in the edition of 1613. Key: _A_, Our habitation, now the Point; _B_, cleared ground for grain, later, the Esplanade, or Grande Place; _C_, gardens; _D_, small brook; _E_, river where Cartier wintered, called by him St. Croix, now the St. Charles; _F_, river of the marshes; _G_, grass-land; _H_, Montmorency Falls, twenty-five fathoms high (really forty fathoms high); _I_, end of Falls of Montmorency, now Lake of the Snows; _R_, Bear Brook, now La Rivière de Beauport; _S_, Brook du Gendre, now Rivière des Fons; _T_, meadows overflowed; _V_, Mont du Gas, very high, now the bastion Roi à la Citadelle; _X_, swift mill-brooks; _Y_, gravelly shore, where diamonds are found; _Z_, Point of Diamonds; _9_, sites of Isle d’Orléans; _L_, very narrow point, afterward known as Cap de Lévis; _M_, Roaring River, which extends to the Etechemins; _N_, St. Lawrence River; _O_, lake in the Roaring River; _P_, mountains and “bay which I named New Biscay;” _Q_, lake of the natives’ cabins. Cf. Slafter’s edition, ii. 175. This map is often wanting in copies of this edition; cf. _Menzies Catalogue_, no. 368. There is another fac-simile of it in the _Voyages de Découverte au Canada_, published by the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec in 1843.—ED.]]