ENDNOTES:
181. Vide antea, pp. 25, 26.
182. La gangue. This is the technical word for the matrix, or substance containing the ore of metals.
183. For 1605, read 1606.
184. Florida, as then known, extended from the peninsula indefinitely to the north.
185. Seal Cove, which makes up between the south-west end of the Grand Manan and Wood Island, the latter being South of Manan and is plainly the island referred to in the text. This cove is open to the South wind and the sea in a storm. Wood Island has a sandy shore with occasional rocks.
186. Port aux Coquilles, the harbor of shells. This port was near the northeastern extremity of Campobello Island, and was probably Head Harbor, which affords a good harbor of refuge.—Vide Champlain's Map of 1612, reference 9.
187. By "harbor" is here meant Annapolis Bay. This wreck of the barque took place on the Granville side of Digby Strait, where the tides rise from twenty-three to twenty-seven feet.
188. North-east. The text has norouest, clearly a misprint for nordest.
189. These two men were M. La Taille and Miquelet, of whom Lescarbot speaks in terms of enthusiastic praise for their patriotic courage in voluntarily risking their lives for the good of New France. Vide Histoire Nouvelle France, Paris, 1612, pp. 545, 546.
190. Mabretou, by Lescarbot written Membertou.