[72] When first discovered the Saguenay was not regarded as a river, but as a strait or passage by which the waters of some northern sea flowed to the St. Lawrence. But on a French map of 1543, the 'R. de Sagnay' and the country of 'Sagnay' are laid down. See Maine Hist. Soc. Collections, 2d Series, vol. i., pp. 331, 354. Charlevoix gives Pitchitaouichetz, as the Indian name of the River.
[73] And in the Historical Magazine, vol. i. p. 246.
[74] Vol. i. p. 246.
[76] Chandler's Survey and Map of the Mohegan country, 1705. Compare the Chip. ashawiwi-sitagon, "a place from which water runs two ways," a dividing ridge or portage between river courses. Owen's Geological Survey of Wisconsin, etc., p. 312.
[77] Blake's Annals of Dorchester, p. 9; Winthrop's Journal, vol. i. p. 28.
[78] On Indian Names, in Trans. Am. Philos. Society, N.S. iv. 361.
[79] On Indian Names (ut supra), p. 365.
[80] Stiles's History of Ancient Windsor, p. 111.
[81] Printed in note to Savage's Winthrop's Journal, ii. 180.