ENDNOTES:

179. In the original, Champlain has written the name of this river in this particular instance Guille, probably an abbreviation for Anguille, the French name of the fish which we call the eel. Lescarbot says the "river was named L'Equille because the first fish taken therein was an equille."—Vide antea, note 57.

180. The elevation of this range varies from six hundred to seven hundred feet.