132. For Bic, Champlain has _Pic_, which is probably a typographical error. It seems probable that Bic is derived from the French word _bicoque_, which means a place of small consideration, a little paltry town. Near the site of the ancient Bic, we now have, on modern maps, _Bicoque_ Rocks, _Bicquette_ Light, _Bic_ Island, _Bic_ Channel, and _Bic_ Anchorage. As suggested by Laverdière, this appears to be the identical harbor entered by Jacques Cartier, in 1535, who named if the Isles of Saint John, because he entered it on the day of the beheading of St. John, which was the 29th of August. Nous les nommasmes les Ysleaux sainct Jehan, parce que nous y entrasmes le jour de la decollation dudict sainct. _Brief Récit_, 1545, D'Avezac's ed. p. 11. Le Jeune speaks of the _Isle du Bic_ in 1635. _Vide Relation des Jésuites_, p. 19. 133. _Tadoussac_, or _Tadouchac_, is derived from the word _totouchac_, which in Montagnais means _breasts_, and Saguenay signifies _water which springs forth_, from the Montagnais word _saki-nip_.--_Vide Laverdière in loco_. Tadoussac, or the breasts from which water springs forth, is naturally suggested by the rocky elevations at the base of which the Saguenay flows. 134. _Impetueux_, plainly intended to mean _troublesome_, as may be seen from the context. 135. Pine, _pins_. The white pine, _Pinus strobus_, or _Strobus Americanus_, grows as far north as Newfoundland, and as far south as Georgia. It was observed by Captain George Weymouth on the Kennebec, and hence deals afterward imported into England were called _Weymouth pine_--_Vide Chronological History of Plants_, by Charles Picketing, M.D., Boston, 1879, p. 809. This is probably the species here referred to by Champlain. Cypress, _Cyprez_. This was probably the American arbor vitæ. _Thuja occidentalis_, a species which, according to the Abbé Laverdière, is found in the neighborhood of the Saguenay. Champlain employed the same word to designate the American savin, or red cedar. _Juniperus Virginiana_, which he found on Cape Cod--_Vide_ Vol. II. p. 82. Note 168. Fir, _sapins_. The fir may have been the white spruce, _Abies alba_, or the black spruce, _Abies nigra_, or the balsam fir or Canada balsam, _Abies balsamea_, or yet the hemlock spruce, _Abies Canadaisis_.