105. Nipissings, or Nipissirini. Champlain writes _Nipisierinii_. 106. On the 26th of July, The distance from the junction of the Ottawa and the Mattawan to Lake Nipissing is about thirty-two miles. If _lieues_ were translated miles, it would be a not very incorrect estimate. 107. _Vide_ the representations here referred to. 108. Lake Nipissing, whose dimensions are over-stated. 109. Sturgeon River. 110. Pere Vimont gives the names of these tribes as follows,--_Timiscimi, Outimagami, Ouachegami, Mitchitamou, Outurbi, Kiristinon_. _Vide Relation des Jesuites_. 1640. p. 34. 111. French River. 112. _Blues_. _Vide antea_, note 101. 113. This significant name is given with reference to their mode of dressing their hair. 114. Blueberries, _Vaccinium Canadense_. 115. _De cuir beullu_, for _cuir bouilli_, literally "boiled leather." 116. The shields of the savages of this region may have been made of the hide of the buffalo, although the range of this animal was far to the northwest of them. Champlain saw undoubtedly among the Hurons skins of the buffalo. _Vide postea_, note 180. 117. Lake Huron is here referred to. 118. The greatest length of Lake Huron on a curvilinear line, between the discharge of St Mary's Strait and the outlet, is about 240 miles; its length due north and south is 186 miles, and its extreme breadth about 220 miles. _Bouchette_. 119. Coasting along the eastern shore of the Georgian Bay, when they arrived at Matchedash Bay they crossed it in a southwesterly course and entered the country of the Attigouautans, or, as they are sometimes called, the Attignaouentans. _Relation des Jesuites,_ 1640, p. 78. They were a principal tribe of the Hurons, living within the limits of the present county of Simcoe. It is to be regretted that the Jesuit Fathers did not accompany their relations with local maps by which we could fix, at least approximately, the Indian towns which they visited, and with which they were so familiar. For a description of the Hurons and of their country, the origin of the name and other interesting particulars, _vide Pere Hierosine Lalemant, Relation des Jesuites_, 1639, Quebec ed. p. 50. 120. _Sitrouilles_ for _citrouilles_. _Vide_ Vol II. p. 64, note 128.