34. Nicholas Brulart de Sillery, who was born at Sillery, in France, in 1544, and died in the same place in 1624. He rendered signal service to Henry IV. Among other public acts he negotiated the peace of Vervins between France and Spain in 1598. He was appointed grand chancellor of France in 1607. Henry IV. said of him, Avec mon chanclier qui ne fait pas le latin et mon connetable (Henri de Montmorency), qui ne fait ni lire ni ecrire, je puis venir a bout des affairs les plus difficiles. 35. For some account of Marshal de Brissac, _vide_ Vol. I. p. 17, note 16. 36. _Vide_ Vol. I. p. 112, note 73. President Jeannin was a most suitable person to consult on this subject, as he was deeply interested in the discovery of a northwest passage to India. When minister at the Hague he addressed a letter bearing date January 21st, 1609, to Henry IV. of France, containing an account of his indirect negotiations with Henry Hudson, for a voyage to discover a shorter passage to India. A copy of this interesting letter, both in French and English, may be found in _Henry Hudson the Navigator_, by G. M. Asher, LL.D., Hakluyt Society, London, 1860, p. 244. 37. The festival of Whitsunday occurred on the 26th May. _Laverdiere in loco_. 38. The Falls of St Louis. 39. Lake St. Louis. 40. Champlain is here speaking of the river St. Lawrence, which flows into Lake St. Louis slightly south of west. 41. Riviere de Loup, now known as the Chateauguay. 42. The River Ottawa or a branch of it flows into Lake St. Louis from the north, although its course is rather from the west. It was often called the River of the Algonquins. It approaches comparatively near to Lake Nipissing, the home of the Nipissirini. The sources of the Ottawa are northeast of Lake Nipissing, a distance of from one to three hundred miles. The distances here given by Champlain are only general estimates gathered from the Indians, and are necessarily inaccurate. 43. Rapide de Brussi, by which the river flows from the Lake of Two Mountains into Lake St Louis. 44. _Lac de Soissons_, now called Lake of Two Mountains _Vide_ Vol. I. p. 294. 45. This is the first of a series of falls now known as the Long Fall. 46. _Quenongebin_. Laverdiere makes, this the same as the Kinounchepirini of Vimont. It was an Algonquin nation situated south of Allumette Island. _Vide Jesuite Relations_, Quebec ed, 1640, p. 34. 47. _Ouescharini_. These people, called Ouaouechkairini by Vimont, appear to have dwelt on the stream now known as the _Riviere de Petite Nation_, rising in a system of lakes, among which are Lake Simon, Whitefish Lake, Long Lake, and Lake Des Isles. _Vide Jesuite Relations_, 1640, p. 34. The tribe here mentioned was subsequently called the Little Nation of the Algonquins hence the name of the river. _Laverdiere_.