5. This little river is mentioned by Champlain in his Voyage of 1603, Vol. I. p. 268. It is represented on early maps as formed by two small streams, flowing, one from the north or northeastern, and the other from the southern side of the mountain, in the rear of the city of Montreal, which unite some distance before they reach the St. Lawrence, flowing into that river at Point Callieres. These little brooks are laid down on Champlain's local map, _Le Grand Sault St. Louis_, on Charlevoix's _Carte de l'Isle de Montreal_, 1744, and on Bellin's _L'Isle de Montreal_, 1764; but they have disappeared on modern maps, and probably are either extinct or are lost in the sewerage of the city, of which they have become a part. We have called the stream formed by these two brooks, note 190, Vol. I., _Riviere St. Pierre_. On Potherie's map, the only stream coming from the interior is so named. _Vide Histoire de L'Amerique_ par M. de Bacqueville de la Potherie, 1722, p. 311. On a map in Greig's _Hochelaga Depicta_, 1839, it is called St. Peter's River. The same stream on Bouchette's map, 1830, is denominated Little River. It seems not unlikely that a part of it was called, at one time, Riviere St. Pierre, and another part Petite Riviere. It is plain that on this stream was situated the sixty acres of cleared land alluded to in the text as formerly occupied by the savages. It will be remembered that seventy-six years anterior to this, in 1535, Jacques Cartier discovered this place, which was then the seat of a large and flourishing Indian town. It is to be regretted that Champlain did not inform us more definitely as to the history of the former occupants of the soil. Some important, and we think conclusive, reasons have been assigned for supposing that they were a tribe of the Iroquois. Among others may be mentioned the similarity in the construction of their towns and houses or cabins, the identity of their language as determined by a collation of the words found in Cartier's journal with the language of the Iroquois; and to these may be added the traditions obtained by missionaries and others, as cited by Laverdiere, to which we must not, however, attach too much value. _Vide Laverdiere in loco_. While it seems probable that the former occupants were of the Iroquois family, it is impossible to determine whether on retiring they joined the Five Nations in the State of New York, or merged themselves with the Hurons, who were likewise of Iroquois origin. 6. I am unable to identify this plant. Its climbing propensity and the color of its fruit suggest _Rhus radicans_, but in other respects the similarity fails.