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20 Near Boulogne, between that town and Calais.

M162 The kings letters to Cartier.

M163 The great mischiefe of leesing the season.

M164 Carpont Hauen.

M165 Transporting of diuers sorts of cattell for breed.

M166 The new king of Canada.

M167 Great dissimulation of a Sauage.

M168 A good roade 4. leagues aboue Saincte Croix.

M169 Trees aboue 3. fathoms about. Hanneda the most excellent tree of the world.

M170 Abundance of Vines of grapes.

M171 Fruit like Medlers.

M172 Seed sp.r.o.ng out of the ground within 8 days.

21 Turnips. (French, _Navets_).

M173 A great Plaine of very good arable ground.

M174 Diamants of Canada.

M175 Excellent and strong hempe.

M176 The rich countrey of Saquenay situated beyond the Saults which are in 44. deg.

M177 They depart from Charlesburg Royal the 7. of Septem.

M178 They delight in red cloth.

M179 The 11 of September.

M180 Bad ground and a great current.

M181 Another village of good people which dwell ouer against the second Sault.

M182 400 persons about their boates.

M183 Like those of New Albion.

M184 The sauages are great dissemblers.

M185 The Sauages conspire together against the French.

M186 A very great number of Sauages a.s.sembled together.

22 This may refer either to Lake St. Peter or Lake Ontario; I should think the latter.

M187 The Saults are in 44. deg. and easie to pa.s.se.

M188 But 5. leagues iourney to pa.s.se the 3 Saults.

M189 Ten dayes iourney from the Saults to this great Lake.

M190 The Isle of Blanc Sablon or white sand.

M191 The Isle Ascention, a.s.sumption or Naliscotec.

M192 The commendation of the Isle of Ascension.

23 Hedgehogs.

24 Query, Mount Logan.

25 Cape Gaspe.

26 Chaleur Bay.

M193 Greater store and better fish then in Newfoundland.

M194 The mouth of the riuer of Canada twenty fiue leagues broad.

27 Filbert.

M195 The riuer is here but 10 leagues broad.

M196 The riuer 8 leagues broad.

28 Saguenay River really rises in Lake St. John.

M197 The riuer not past 4 leagues ouer.

29 The word _Canada_ in the native tongue meant, as we have seen above, a town, and is probably the modern Rimouski.

M198 The beginning of the fresh water.

M199 The riuer but a quarter of a league broad.

M200 Why the countrey is colder in the Winter then France.

M201 A second reason.

M202 The variation of the compa.s.se.

30 The name _Norumbega_ had a different meaning at different periods.

First, there was the fabulous city of Norumbega, situated on the Pen.o.bucot. Secondly, there was the country of Norumbega, embracing Nova Scotia and New England, and at one time reaching from Cape Breton to 30 deg. in Florida. Subsequently it receded to narrower limits and embraced only the region on both sides of the river above named. (Woods, Introduction to Western Planting, p. lii.)

M203 Gold and siluer like to be found in Canada.

M204 A Bay in 42 degrees giuing some hope of a pa.s.sage.

31 The Bay of Fundy is probably here alluded to.

M205 The cause of the often snowing in Canada.

M206 Iaques Cartier stole away.

M207 August 1542. September 14.

M208 The proportion of their victuals.

M209 The length of the Winter.

M210 So haue they of Ceuola, and Quiuira, and Meta Incognita.

M211 Their gouernment.

32 He was only knighted some time between December 1584 and February 1585.

33 Public Record Office. Dom. Eliz. Addenda, Vol. xxix., No. 9. This letter was printed in full in the Maine Historical Society's _Doc.u.mentary History of the State of Maine_, Vol. ii.

34 See the Introduction by Leonard Woods to the Reprint of Hakluyt's Discourse for the Maine Historical Society.

35 A great collector of Rare Books, who died in 1770, and whose library was sold in 1815.

36 This "last edition" is evidently the limited one of Hakluyt's Collection of Voyages of 1809-12, 5 vols. 4to, edited by R. H. Evans and printed by Woodfall.

37 Stevens's Historical and Geographical Notes, p. 20.

38 Estavan Gomes, a Portuguese pilot, sailed with Magellan on his famous voyage in 1519, but deserted with his s.h.i.+p and crew. In 1525 (_not_ 1524) he sailed from Corunna. He coasted Newfoundland as far south as 40 deg. Here he took on board certain Indians and carried them to Spain. (C.D.)

39 Born 1478. His _Historia general de los Indias_ was not published in its entirety until 1851-55. (C.D.)