Muskrat, _rats musquets_. The musk-rat, _Fiber zibethecus_, sometimes called musquash from the Algonquin word, _m8sk8éss8_, is found in three varieties, the black, and rarely the pied and white. For a description of this animal _vide Le Jeune, Jesuit Relations_, 1635, pp. 18, 19. 180. The Verchères. 181. Summits of the Green Mountains. 182. From the Verchères to Montreal, the St. Lawrence is full of islands, among them St. Thérèse and nameless others. 183. This was the Island of St Hélène, a favorite name given to several other places. He subsequently called it St Hélène, probably from Hélène Boullé, his wife. Between it and the mainland on the north flows the _Rapide de Ste. Marie.--Vide Lauru's Chart_. 184. This landing was on the present site of the city of Montreal, and the little island, according to Laverdière, is now joined to the mainland by quays. 185. The island of Montreal, here referred to, not including the isle Jésus, is about thirty miles long and nine miles in its greatest width. 186. The Isle Perrot is about seven or eight miles long and about three miles wide. 187. Island of St Paul, sometimes called Nuns' Island. 188. Round Island, situated just below St. Hélène's, on the east, say about fifty yards distant. 189. The mountain in the rear of the city of Montreal, 700 feet in height, discovered in October, 1535. by Jacques Cartier, to which he gave the name after which the city is called. "Nous nomasmes la dicte montaigne le mont Royal."--_Brief Récit_, 1545, D'Avezac's ed. p. 23. When Cartier made his visit to this place in 1535, he found on or near the site of the present city of Montreal the famous Indian town called _Hochelaga_. Champlain does not speak of it in the text, and it had of course entirely disappeared.--_Vide_ Cartier's description in _Brief Récit_, above cited. 190. Rivière St Pierre. This little river is formed by two small streams flowing one from the north and the other from the south side of the mountain. Bellin and Charlevoix denominate it _La Petite Rivière_. These small streams do not appear on modern maps, and have probably now entirely disappeared.--_Vide Charlevoix's Carte de l'Isle de Montreal; Atlas Maritime_, par Sieur Bellin; likewise _Atlas of the Dominion of Canada_, 1875. 191. The River St. Lambert, according to Laverdière, a small stream from which by a short portage the Indian with his canoe could easily reach Little River, which flows into the basin of Chambly, the lake referred to by Champlain. This was the route of the Algonquins, at least on their return from their raids upon the Iroquois.--_Vide_ Vol. II. p. 225. 192. Laverdière supposes this insignificant stream to be La Rivière de la Tortue. 193. The Falls of St. Louis, or the Lachine rapids. 194. Lachine Rapids.