[Footnote 91: The precise spot on which the upper fort of Jacques Cartier was built, afterward enlarged by Roberval, has been fixed by an ingenious gentleman at Quebec at the top of Cape Rouge Height, a short distance from the handsome villa of Mr. Atkinson. A few months ago, Mr. Atkinson's workmen, in leveling the lawn in front of the house, and close to the point of Cape Rouge Height, found beneath the surface some loose stones which had apparently been the foundation of some building or fortification. Among these stones were found several iron balls of different sizes, adapted to the caliber of the ship guns used at the period of Jacques Cartier's and Roberval's visit. Upon the whole, the evidence of the presence of the French at Cape Rouge may be considered as conclusive. Nor is there any good reason to doubt that Roberval took up his quarters in the part which Jacques Cartier had left.--_Picture of Quebec_, p. 62-469.] [Footnote 92: Jacques Cartier was born at St. Malo about 1500. The day of his birth can not be discovered, nor the time and place of his death. Most probably he finished his useful life at St. Malo; for we find, under the date of the 29th of November, 1549, that the celebrated navigator with his wife, Catharine des Granges, founded an obit in the Cathedral of St. Malo, assigning the sum of four francs for that purpose. The mortuary registers of St. Malo make no mention of his death, nor is there any tradition on the subject.] [Footnote 93: The name of America was first given to the New World in 1507. "L'opinion anciennement emise et encore tres repandue que Vespuce, dans l'exercice de son emploi de Piloto mayor, et charge de corriger les cartes hydrographiques de 1508 a 1512, ait profite de sa position pour appeler de son nom le Nouveau Monde, n'a aucun fondement. La denomination d'Amerique a ete proposee loin de Seville, en Lorraine, en 1507, une annee avant la creation de l'office d'un Piloto mayor de Indias. Les Mappe Mondes qui portent le nom d'Amerique n'ont paru que 8 our 10 ans apres la mort de Vespuce, et dans des pays sur lequels ni lui ni ses parents n'exercaient aucune influence. Il est probable que Vespuce n'a jamais su quelle dangereuse gloire on lui preparoit a Saint Die, dans un petit endroit, situe au pied des Vosges, et dont vraisembablement le nom meme lui etoit inconnu. Jusqu' a l'epoque de sa mort, le mot Amerique, employe comme denomination d'un continent ne s'est trouve imprime que dans deux seuls ouvrages, dans la Cosmographiae Introductio de Martin Waldseemuller, et dans le Globus Mundi (Argentor, 1509). On n'a jusqu'ici aucun rapport direct de Waldseemuller imprimateur de Saint Die, avec le navigateur Florentin."--Humboldt's _Geogr. du Nouveau Continent_, vol. v., p. 206.] [Footnote 94: Nomoesi-Sipu, _Fish River_, Moesisip by corruption. This river is called Cucagna by Garcilasso.]