_Beaubassin_, the present Chignecto Bay; the northern arm at the head of the Bay of Fundy. Blaeu's map (1620), and De Laet's (1633), show it as B. des Gennes; Bellin's (1744), as Chignitou or Beaubassin. 64 (p. 207).--Sanson's map of Canada (1656) shows Cap de l'Evesque; and Creuxius's (1660), _prom. Episcopi_. Bellin's map of the St. Lawrence River (1761) enables us to identify this point as the present Cape Magdalen, or Magdalaine, west of Cape Rosier. Cf. Laverdière's _Champlain_, p. 116, _note_; and _Champlain_ (Prince Soc.), vol. i., p. 281, _note_. _Chat_, a corruption of _Chaste_, the name of Champlain's early patron. Sieur Aymar de Chaste (Chattes, or Chastes), for many years the governor of Dieppe, distinguished both as soldier and sailor, and a personal friend of Henry IV., had formed at Rouen, under a royal commission, a company to prosecute further explorations in Canada. In March, 1603, he sent Pontgravé and Champlain thither, to select a location for the colony he proposed to establish, and to make other preliminary explorations and arrangements; see Laverdière's _Champlain_, pp. 700-704, and 1090, _note_. During their absence, De Chaste died (May 13, 1603), and his schemes were soon taken up by De Monts (vol. i., _note_ 2).--See Faillon's _Col. Fr._, vol. i., pp. 74-84. An account of De Chaste's voyage to Terceira (whither he was sent in 1583, with a military force by Catherine de Médicis), forms part of Thévenot's _Relations de divers Voyages Curieux_ (Paris, 1596), under the heading "Voyage de la Tercere." 65 (p. 209).--Of these five settlements, the first was made in 1535, by Jacques Cartier, at the mouth of the river called by him St. Croix, but afterwards named St. Charles, by the Récollet missionaries, in honor of Charles des Boues, grand vicar of Pontoise.--See Shea's ed. of Le Clercq's _Establishment of the Faith_ (N. Y., 1881), p. 149. Those of De Monts, at St. Croix and Port Royal, have been already described by Lescarbot. In regard to the settlement at Quebec, which the text inadvertently mentions as the third, instead of the fourth, it was on the northern bank of the St. Lawrence, not the southern, as he says here. The fifth, that of St. Sauveur, is fully described in the present volume. 66 (p. 209).--Pointe St. Croix, now named Point Platon, about 35 miles above Quebec. A small island, not far from this point, was called Ste. Croix Island, up to 1633; after that time, Richelieu, for the great cardinal. As intimated in the text, there has been a difference of opinion as to the place where Cartier spent the winter of 1535-36. Charlevoix (Shea's ed., vol. i., p. 116), claimed that the point mentioned above (Platon) was the St. Croix of Cartier; but Champlain and other authorities have shown that it was, instead, at St. Charles River. See Laverdière's _Champlain_, pp. 90-93, and 304-309; also Faillon's _Col. Fr._ vol. i., pp. 496-499.