THE BIRTH OF CHAMPLAIN. All efforts to fix the exact date of his birth have been unsuccessful. M. De Richemond, author of a _Biographie de la Charente Inférieure_, instituted most careful searches, particularly with the hope of finding a record of his baptism. The records of the parish of Brouage extend back only to August 11, 1615. The duplicates, deposited at the office of the civil tribunal of Marennes anterior to this date, were destroyed by fire.--_MS. letter of M. De Richemond, Archivist of the Dep. of Charente Inférieure_, La Rochelle, July 17, 1875. MARC LESCARBOT. We have cited the authority of this writer in this work on many occasions. He was born at Vervins, perhaps about 1585. He became an advocate, and a resident of Paris, and, according to Larousse, died in 1630. He came to America in 1606, and passed the winter of that year at the French settlement near the present site of Lower Granville, on the western bank of Annapolis Basin in Nova Scotia. In the spring of 1607 he crossed the Bay of Fundy, entered the harbor of St. John, N. B., and extended his voyage as far as De Monts's Island in the River St. Croix. He returned to France that same year, on the breaking up of De Monts's colony. He was the author of the following works: _Histoire de la Nouvelle France_, 1609; _Les Muses de la Nouvelle France; Tableau de la Suisse, auquel sont décrites les Singularites des Alpes_, Paris, 1618; _La Chasse aux Anglais dans l'isle de Rhé et au Siége de la Rochelle, et la Réduction de cette Ville en 1628_, Paris, 1629.