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
41. _Port du Cap Naigré_. On the bay by this cape there is a French
settlement, where Sieur de la Tour commands, from whom it was named Port la
Tour. The Reverend Récollect Fathers dwelt here in 1630. [40]
42. _Baye du Cap de Sable_.
43. _Baye Saine_. [41]
44. _Baye Courante_, with many islands abounding in game, good fishing, and
places favorable for vessels. [42]
45. _Port du Cap Fourchu_, very pleasant, but very nearly dry at low tide.
Near this place are many islands, with good hunting.
47. _Petit Passage de Isle Longue_. Here there is good cod-fishing.
48. _Cap des Deux Bayes_. [43]
49. _Port des Mines_, where, at low tide, small pieces of very pure copper
are to be found in the rocks along the shore. [44]
50. _Isles de Bacchus_, very pleasant, containing many vines, nut,
plum, and other trees. [45]
51. Islands near the mouth of the river Chouacoet.
52. _Isles Assez Hautes_, three or four in number, two or three leagues
distant from the land, at the mouth of Baye Longue. [46]
53. _Baye aux Isles_, with suitable harbors for vessels. The country is
very good, and settled by numerous savages, who till the land. In these
localities are numerous cypresses, vines, and nut-trees. [47]
54. _La Soupçonneuse_, an island nearly a league distant from the land.
[48]
55. _Baye Longue_. [49]
56. _Les Sept Isles_. [50]
57. _Riuière des Etechemins_. [51] _The Virginias, where the English are
settled, between the 36th and 37th degrees of latitude. Captains Ribaut and
Laudonnière made explorations 36 or 37 years ago along the coasts adjoining
Florida, and established a settlement_. [52]
58. Several rivers of the Virginias, flowing into the Gulf.
59. Coast inhabited by savages who till the soil, which is very good.
60. _Poincte Confort_. [53]
61. _Immestan_. [54]
62. _Chesapeacq Bay_.
63. _Bedabedec_, the coast west of the river Pemetegoet. [55]
64. _Belles Prairies_.
65. Place on Lac Champlain where the Yroquois were defeated by Sieur
Champlain in 1606. [56]
66. _Petit Lac_, by way of which they go to the Yroquois, after passing
over that of Champlain. [57]
67. _Baye des Trespassez_, on the island of Newfoundland.
68. _Chappeau Rouge_.
69. _Baye du Sainct Esprit_.
70. _Les Vierges_.
71. _Port Breton_, near Cap Sainct Laurent, on Isle du Cap Breton.
72. _Les Bergeronnettes_, three leagues from Tadoussac.
73. _Le Cap d'Espoir_, near Isle Percée. [58]
74. _Forillon_, at Poincte de Gaspey.
75. _Isle de Mont-réal_, at the Falls of St. Louis, in the River St.
Lawrence. [59]
76. _Riuière des Prairies_, coming from a lake at the Falls of St. Louis,
where there are two islands, one of which is Montreal. For several years
this has been a station for trading with the savages. [60]
77. _Sault de la Chaudière_, on the river of the Algonquins, some
eighteen feet high, and descending among rocks with a great roar. [61]
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