Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01Champlain, Samuel de
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Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01
Champlain, Samuel de
America -- Discovery and exploration -- French; Indians of North America -- Canada; New France -- Discovery and exploration
I. _Isle de Sasinou_, between Monts Déserts and Isles aux Corneilles. [5]
K. _Isle de Mont-réal_, at the Falls of St. Louis, some eight or nine
leagues in circuit. [6]
L. _Riuière Jeannin_. [7]
M. _Riuière St. Antoine_, [8]
N. Kind of salt water discharging into the sea, with ebb and flood,
abundance of fish and shell-fish, and in some places oysters of not very
good flavor. [9]
P. _Port aux Coquilles_, an island at the mouth of the River St. Croix,
with good fishing. [10]
Q. Islands where there is fishing. [11]
R. _Lac de Soissons_. [12]
S. _Baye du Gouffre_. [13]
T. _Isle de Monts Déserts_, very high.
V. _Isle S. Barnabe_, in the great river near the Bic.
X. _Lesquemain_, where there is a small river, abounding in salmon and
trout, near which is a little rocky islet, where there was formerly a
station for the whale fishery. [14]
Y. _La Pointe aux Allouettes_, where, in the month of September, there are
numberless larks, also other kinds of game and shell-fish.
Z. _Isle aux Liéures_, so named because some hares were captured there when
it was first discovered. [15]
2. _Port à Lesquille_, dry at low tide, where are two brooks coming from
the mountains. [16]
3. _Port au Saulmon_, dry at low tide. There are two small islands here,
abounding, in the season, with strawberries, raspberries, and _bluets_.
[17] Near this place is a good roadstead for vessels, and two small brooks
flowing into the harbor.
4. _Riuière Platte_, coming from the mountains, only navigable for canoes.
It is dry here at low tide a long distance out. Good anchorage in the
offing.
5. _Isles aux Couldres_, some league and a half long, containing in their
season great numbers of rabbits, partridges, and other kinds of game. At
the southwest point are meadows, and reefs seaward. There is anchorage here
for vessels between this island and the mainland on the north.
6. _Cap de Tourmente_, a league from which Sieur de Champlain had a
building erected, which was burned by the English in 1628. Near this place
is Cap Bruslé, between which and Isle aux Coudres is a channel, with eight,
ten, and twelve fathoms of water. On the south the shore is muddy and
rocky. To the north are high lands, &c.
7. _Isle d'Orléans_, six leagues in length, very beautiful on account of
its variety of woods, meadows, vines, and nuts. The western point of this
island is called Cap de Condé.
8. _Le Sault de Montmorency_, twenty fathoms high, [18] formed by a river
coming from the mountains, and discharging into the St. Lawrence, a league
and a half from Quebec.
9. _Rivière S. Charles_, coming from Lac S. Joseph, [19] very beautiful
with meadows at low tide. At full tide barques can go up as far as the
first fall. On this river are built the churches and quarters of the
reverend Jésuit and Récollect Fathers. Game is abundant here in spring and
autumn.
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