_La Mer Douce_ is a very large lake, containing a countless number of islands. It is very deep, and abounds in fish of all varieties and of extraordinary size, which are taken at different times and seasons, as in the great sea. The southern shore is much pleasanter than the northern, where there are many rocks and great quantities of caribous. _Le Lac des Bisserenis_ is very beautiful, some twenty-five leagues in circuit, and containing numerous islands covered with woods and meadows. The savages encamp here, in order to catch in the river sturgeon, pike, and carp, which are excellent and of very great size, and taken in large numbers. Game is also abundant, although the country is not particularly attractive, it being for the most part rocky. [NOTE.--The following are marked on the map as places where the French have had settlements: 1. Grand Cibou; 2. Cap Naigre; 3. Port du Cap Fourchu; 4. Port Royal; 5. St. Croix; 6. Isle des Monts Deserts; 7. Port de Miscou; 8. Tadoussac; 9. Quebec; 10. St. Croix, near Quebec.] ENDNOTES: 1. It is to be observed that some of the letters and figures are not found on the map. Among the rest, the letter A is wanting. It is impossible of course to tell with certainty to what it refers, particularly as the places referred to do not occur in consecutive order. The Abbé Laverdière thinks this letter points to the bay of Boston or what we commonly call Massachusetts Bay, or to the Bay of all Isles as laid down by Champlain on the eastern coast of Nova Scotia. 2. On the southern coast of Newfoundland, now known as _Placentia Bay_. 3. Point Levi, opposite Quebec. 4. The letter G is wanting, but the reference is plainly to the Straits of Belle Isle, as may be seen by reference to the map. 5. This island was somewhere between Mount Desert and Jonesport; not unlikely it was that now known as Petit Manan. It was named after Sasanou, chief of the River Kennebec. _Vide_ Vol. II. p. 58. 6. The underestimate is so great, that it is probable that the author intended to say that the length of the island is eight or nine leagues. 7. The Boyer, east of Quebec. It appears to have been named after the President Jeannin. _Vide antea_, p.112. 8. A river east of the Island of Orleans now called Rivière du Sud. 9. N is wanting. 10. A harbor at the north-eastern extremity of the island of Campobello. _Vide_ Vol II. p. 100. 11. Q is wanting. The reference is perhaps to the islands in Penobscot Bay. 12. Lac de Soissons. So named after Charles de Bourbon, Count de Soissons, a Viceroy of New France in 1612. _Vide antea_, p 112. Now known as the Lake of Two Mountains. 13. A bay at the mouth of a river of this name now called St. Paul's Bay, near the Isle aux Coudres. _Vide_ Vol. II. note 305. 14. _Vide antea_, note 241. 15. An island in the River St Lawrence west of Tadoussac, still called Hare Island. _Vide antea_, note 148.