123. The shore which they approached was probably Cape Pine, east of Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. 124. In Placentia bay, on the southern coast of Newfoundland. 125. West of Placentia Bay. 126. Cape Ray is northwest of the islands of St. Peter. 127. Cape St. Lawrence, now called Cape North, is the northern extremity of the island of Cape Breton, and the island of St. Paul is a few miles north of it. 128. The Gulf or Bay of St. Lawrence. It was so named by Jacques Cartier on his second voyage, in 1535. Nous nommasmes la dicte baye la Sainct Laurens, _Brief Recit_, 1545, D'Avezac ed. p. 8. The northeastern part of it is called on De Laet's map, "Grand Baye." 129. "This island is about one hundred and forty miles long, thirty-five miles broad at its widest part, with an average breadth of twenty-seven and one-half miles."--_Le Moine's Chronicles of the St. Lawrence_, p.100. It was named by Cartier in 1535, the Island of the Assumption, having been discovered on the 15th of August, the festival of the Assumption. Nous auons nommes l'ysle de l'Assumption.--_Brief Recit_, 1545, D'Avenzac's ed. p. 9. Alfonse, in his report of his voyage of 1542, calls it the _Isle de l'Ascension_, probably by mistake. "The Isle of Ascension is a goodly isle and a goodly champion land, without any hills, standing all upon white rocks and Alabaster, all covered with wild beasts, as bears, Luserns, Porkespicks." _Hakluyt_, Vol. III. p. 292. Of this island De Laet says, "Elle est nommee el langage des Sauvages _Natiscotec_"--_Hist. du Nouveau Monde_, a Leyde, 1640, p.42. _Vide also Wyet's Voyage_ in Hakluyt, Vol. III. p. 241. Laverdière says the Montagnais now call it _Natascoueh_, which signifies, _where the bear is caught_. He cites Thevet, who says it is called by the savages, _Naticousti_, by others _Laisple_. The use of the name Anticosty by Champlain, now spelled Anticosti, would imply that its corruption from the original, _Natiscotec_, took place at a very early date. Or it is possible that Champlain wrote it as he heard it pronounced by the natives, and his orthography may best represent the original. 130. _Gachepé_, so written in the text, subsequently written by the author _Gaspey_, but now generally _Gaspé_. It is supposed to have been derived from the Abnaquis word _Katsepi8i_, which means what is separated from the rest, and to have reference to a remarkable rock, three miles above Cape Gaspé, separated from the shore by the violence of the waves, the incident from which it takes its name.--_Vide Voyages de Champlain_, ed. 1632, p. 91; _Chronicles of the St. Lawrence_, by J. M. Le Moine, p. 9. 131. A river flowing into the St. Lawrence from the south in latitude 48 deg. 52' and in longitude west from Greenwich 67 deg. 32', now known as the Matane.