miliumque Indicum, & fabam Brasilicam ferunt. NEW France presents to the French, as they approach it, two coasts, one which borders with a narrow frontage upon our Ocean to the East; and another far longer, which extends Southward to the confines of Florida. The former side abounds in bays and estuaries, by which one may readily penetrate into the interior; by these routes the French usually enter these regions; but, since the other coast, lying opposite our France, is rendered almost inaccessible by the intervention of a great island which they call Newfoundland, our people do not approach in that direction. The immense plain in that quarter is watered by a river of vast size and mighty volume, its course directly eastward from almost the farthest west, until, by reason of the narrow strait at the island of Newfoundland [566] and the opposition of the island itself, its mouth is broadly curved towards the Southern coast. The native name of that river is _Sacqué_;[50] the French have called it St. Lawrence; its source the natives seek more than 500 leagues distant, in a lake 300 leagues in width. Into this main stream other noble rivers flow from the North, such as the Saguenay,[51] the Three Rivers,[52]--or three rivers flowing together,--the Algomequi,[53] and many others. These rivers are open for navigation far Northward--the Saguenay five hundred leagues, the Three Rivers four hundred leagues, From the mountains[54] upon the Southern bank of the Sacqué River other notable streams flow across to the Southern coast of the Ocean, and from these the native names for most of the tribes and districts of that region are derived; but upon some of them the French afterward conferred names after their own fashion. The rivers flowing Southward are the St. John, Pentegoët, Quinibequi, Choüacoet,[11] and Norembega, which last stream Champlain[55] asserts to be the same as the Pentegoët. The tribes across the Sacqué or St. Lawrence, towards the North, not far from its mouth, are the Canadis[56] and Excomminquis;[10] but at a distance from these, on the same Northern shore, toward the west, in the direction of Florida, dwell the Algomeguis[57] and the Ochasteguis.[58] Across the St Lawrence, on the Southern bank, the Canadi live also, directly at the bend of the great river, which turns from the East towards the South.[59] Beyond them, toward the West, lie the Souriquois, inhabitants of the country of Acadia;[60] thence, toward the Pentegoët or Norembega River, the Pentegoëts;[6] [567] to their right, looking Westward, about the fortress at _Quebec_,[59] the Montagnais; beyond the Pentegoëts; directly toward the Quinibequi River, the Eteminquis; then the Almochiquois, at the Choüacoet River, scattered over a very extensive region;