La Potherie's words are: "On tient que les Normands qui etoient avec J. Cartier a sa premiere decouverte, apercevant en bout de l'isle d'Orleans, un cap fort eleve, s'ecrierent 'Quel bec!' et qu' a la suite du tems la nom de Quebec lui est reste. Je ne suis point garant de cette etymologie." Mr. Hawkins terms this "a derivation entirely illusory and improbable," and asserts that the word is of Norman origin. He gives an engraving of a seal belonging to William de la Pole, earl of Suffolk, dated in the 7th of Henry V., or A.D. 1420. The legend or motto is, "Sigillum Willielmi de la Pole, Comitis Suffolckiae, Domine de Hamburg et de Quebec." Suffolk was impeached by the Commons of England in 1450, and one of the charges brought against him was, his unbounded influence in Normandy, where he lived and ruled like an independent prince; it is not, therefore, improbable that he enjoyed the French title of Quebec in addition to his English honors. The Indian name Stadacona had perished before the time of Champlain, owing, probably, to the migration of the principal tribe and the succession of others. The inhabitants of Hochelaga, we are told by Jacques Cartier, were the only people in the surrounding neighborhood who were not migratory.] [Footnote 86: "In mezzo di quelle campagne, e posta la terra d'Hochelaga appresso e congiunta con una montagna coltivata tutta attorno e molto fertile, sopra la qual si vede molto lontano. Noi la chiamammo il Monto Regal.... Parecchi uomini e donne ci vennero a condur e menar sopra la montagna, qui dinanzi detta, la qual chiamammo Monte Regal, distante da detto luogo poco manco d'un miglio, sopra la quale essendo noi, vedemmo e avemmo notitia di piu di trenta leghe attorno di quella, e verso la parte di tramontana si vede una continuazione di montagne, li quali corrono avante e ponente, e altra tante verso il mezzo giorno, fra le quali montagna e la terra, piu bella che sia possibile a veder."--J. Cartier, in Ramusio, tom. iii., p. 447, 448. "Cartier donna le nom de Mont Royal a la montagne au pied de laquelle etoit la bourgade de Hochelaga. Il decouvrit de la une grande etendue de pays dont la vue le charma, et avec raison, car il en est peu au monde de plus beau et de meilleur."--Charlevoix, tom. i., p. 20.] [Footnote 87: "This tree is supposed to have been the spruce fir, _Pinus Canadensis_. It is called 'Ameda' by the natives. Spruce-beer is known to be a powerful anti-scorbutic."--Champlain. part i., p. 124. Charlevoix calls the tree _Epinette Blanche_.]