42 (p. 183).--The mountains here referred to are the Laurentian; they extend along the north shore of the St. Lawrence from Belle Isle Straits to Quebec, and thence N. W. to the Arctic Ocean,--a distance of about 3,500 miles. They form the watershed between the St. Lawrence and Hudson Bay, and also between that bay and the region of the Mackenzie River. The general elevation of the Laurentian range is 1,500 to 2,000 feet, although some peaks in the neighborhood of the Saguenay reach a height of 4,000 feet. The valleys are often worn into deep pits, containing ponds and lakes; and some of the streams are formed by a succession of these lakes, united by short outlets. These mountains are generally thickly wooded; the rocks are eozoic; and the region is rich in minerals,--graphite, asbestos, phosphates, mica, iron, etc.--See _Annual Reports_ of Canadian Geological Survey. 43 (p. 187).--_Consulter of Manitou_; diviner or soothsayer, often called "sorcerer" by the French; the _aoutmoin_ or _pilotois_ described by Lescarbot (_Nouv. France_, pp. 678-681, 683), Biard (vol. ii., of our series, pp. 75, 77), and Champlain (Laverdière's ed.), pp. 335. 336--See _note_ 41, _ante_; cf. Rochemonteix's _Jésuites_, vol. i., pp. 110, 111. 44 (p. 193).--_Eschom_: more correctly written _Echon_, since, according to Brébeuf (_Relation_ 1636, part 2, chap, iv.), the sound of _M_ is unknown in the Huron dialect. A name given to Brébeuf by the Hurons, during his first stay among them (see vol. iv., _note_ 30). After his death, they similarly named Chaumonot, in accordance with their custom of bestowing a dead man's name upon one of his relatives, or upon some person adopted by the tribe, who thus became the representative and successor of the deceased. The word _echon_ is the Huron name of a certain tree, valued by the natives for its medicinal properties,--according to _Suite de la vie du Chaumonot_ (1693), pp. 13, 14. 45 (p. 197).--This negro lad is mentioned by Le Jeune in the _Relation_ of 1632, p. 63, _ante_. Ker is one of the numerous variants of Kirk's name. "The estimable family living" at Quebec was that of Madame Hébert and her son-in-law, Guillaume Couillard (vol. ii., _note_ 80; vol. iv., _note_ 38); see _note_ 13, _ante_. For value of écu, see vol. i., _note_ 34. Le Baillif, a native of Amiens, had come with De Caen, in 1622, as a clerk. Champlain says (Laverdière's ed., pp. 1228-1231) that this man was discharged by his employer, as being extremely vicious; that he deserted to the English, in 1629; that Kirk gave him the keys of the company's buildings; that Le Baillif availed himself of this opportunity to plunder the stores of all their contents, including 3,500 to 4,000 beaver skins belonging to De Caen; that his scandalous conduct displeased even the English; and that he illtreated the French who remained at Quebec. Le Clercq says that Le Baillif tried to induce the English to plunder the Jesuit residence.