ould
think the latter.

M187 The Saults are in 44. deg. and easie to passe.
M188 But 5. leagues iourney to passe 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, Assumption 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 compasse.

30 The name _Norumbega_ had a different meaning at different periods.
First, there was the fabulous city of Norumbega, situated on the
Penobucot. 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 passage.

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
_Documentary 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