"Kind of fruit resembling chestnuts." This was probably the chestnut, _Caftanea Americana_. The fruit much resembles the European, but is smaller and sweeter. Cherries, _cerises_. Three kinds may here be included, the wild red cherry, _Prunus Pennsylvanica_, the choke cherry. _Prunus Virginiana_, and the wild black cherry, _Prunus serotina_. Oaks, _chesnes_. Probably the more noticeable varieties, as the white oak, _Quercus alba_, and red oak, Quercus _rubra_. Aspens, _trembles_. The American aspen, _Populus tremuloides_. Poplar, _pible_. For _piboule_, as suggested by Laverdière. a variety of poplar. Hops, _houblon_. _Humulus lupulus_, found in northern climates, differing from the hop of commerce, which was imported from Europe. Ash. _fresne_. The white ash, _Fraxinus Americana_, and black ash, _Fraxinus sambucifolia_. Maple, _érable_. The tree here observed was probably the rock or sugar maple, _Acer faccharinum_. Several other species belong to this region. Beech, _hestre_. The American beech, _Fagus ferruginea_, of which there is but one species.--_Vide_, Vol. II. p. 113, note 205. Cypress, _cyprez_.--_Vide antea_ note 35. Strawberry, _fraises_. The wild strawberry, _Fragaria vesca_, and _Fragaria Virginiana_, both species, are found in this region.--_Vide_ Pickering's _Chronological History of Plants_, p. 873. Raspberries _framboises_. The American raspberry, _Rubis strigosus_. Currants, red, green, and blue, _groizelles rouges, vertes and bleues_. The first mentioned is undoubtedly the red currant of our gardens. _Ribes rubrum_. The second may have been the unripe fruit of the former. The third doubtless the black currant, _Ribes nigrum_, which grows throughout Canada.--_Vide Chronological History of Plants_, Pickering. p. 871; also Vol. II. note 138. _Orignas_, so written in the original text. This is, I think, the earliest mention of this animal under this Algonquin name. It was written, by the French, sometimes _orignac, orignat_, and _orignal_.--_Vide Jesuit Relations_, 1635, p. 16; 1636, p. 11, _et passim_; Sagard, _Hist. du Canada_, 1636, p. 749; _Description de l'Amerique_, par Denys. 1672, p. 27. _Orignac_ was used interchangeably with _élan_, the name of the elk of northern Europe, regarded by some as the same spccies.--_Vide Mammals_, by Spenser F. Baird. But the _orignac_ of Champlain was the moose. _Alce Americanus_, peculiar to the northern latitudes of America. Moose is derived from the Indian word _moosoa_. This animal is the largest of the _Cervus_ family. The males are said to attain the weight of eleven or twelve hundred pounds. Its horns sometimes weigh fifty or sixty pounds. It is exceedingly shy and difficult to capture.