Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01Champlain, Samuel de
History
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
60. This river comes from the Lake of Two Mountains, is a branch of the
Ottawa separating the Island of Montreal from the Isle Jésus and flows
into the main channel of the Ottawa two or three miles before it
reaches the eastern end of the Island of Montreal.
61. The Chaudière Falls are near the site of the city of Ottawa. _Vide
antea_, p. 120.
62. Muskrat Lake.
63. This number is wanting on the map. Muscrat Lake is one of this
succession of lakes, which extends easterly towards the Ottawa.
64. Allumette Island, in the River Ottawa, about eighty-five miles above
the capital of the Dominion of Canada.
65. That part of the River Ottawa which, after its bifurcation, sweeps
around and forms the northern boundary of Allumette Island.
66. The Ottawa beyond its junction with the Matawan.
67. French River.
68. _Vide antea_, note 83, p. 130.
69. Plainly Lake St. Louis, now the Ontario, and not the Falls of St Louis.
The reference is here to Niagara Falls.
70. The River Rideau.
71. The River Trent discharges into the Bay of Quinte, an arm of Lake
Ontario or Lac St Louis.
72. On the borders of Lake Ontario in the State of New York.
73. The head-waters of the Bay of Fundy.
74. The River Ottawa, here referred to, extends nearly to Lake Nipissing,
here spoken of as the lake of the _Bissèreni_.
75. The Canada blueberry, Vaccanium Canadense. The aborigines of New
England were accustomed to dry the blueberry for winter's use. _Vide
Josselyn's Rarities_, Tuckerman's ed., Boston, 1865, p. 113.
76. This reference is to the Antouoronons, as given on the map.
THE PRINCE SOCIETY.
[Seal Inscription: In Memory of Thomas Prince]
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE PRINCE SOCIETY.
_Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General
Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows_:
SECTION I. John Ward Dean, J. Wingate Thornton, Edmund F. Slafter, and
Charles W. Tuttle, their associates and successors, are made a corporation
by the name of the PRINCE SOCIETY, for the purpose of preserving and
extending the knowledge of American History, by editing and printing such
manuscripts, rare tracts, and volumes as are mostly confined in their use
to historical students and public libraries.
SECTION 2. Said corporation may hold real and personal estate to an amount
not exceeding thirty thousand dollars.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 18, 1874.
* * * * *
NOTE.--The Prince Society was organized on the 25th of May, 1858. What was
undertaken as an experiment has proved successful. This ACT OF
INCORPORATION has been obtained to enable the Society better to fulfil its
object, in its expanding growth.
THE PRINCE SOCIETY.
CONSTITUTION.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account