20. Champlain here calls the Chaudière the River of the Etechemins, notwithstanding he had before given the name to that now known as the St. Croix. Vide Vol. II. pp. 30, 47, 60. There is still a little east of the Chaudière a river now known as the Etechemin; but the channel of the Chaudière would be the course which the Indians would naturally take to reach the head-waters of the Kennebec, where dwelt the Abenaquis.
21. River Verte, entering the St. Lawrence on the south of Green Island, opposite to Tadoussac.
22. Green Island.
23. Jacques Cartier River.
24. Near the Batiscan.
25. Nicolet. Vide Laverdière's note, Quebec ed. Vol. III. p. 328.
26. River St. Francis.
27. Rivière du Loup.
28. River Richelieu.
29. This number is wanting.