157. River Jacques Cartier, which is in fact about five miles east of Point Platon.
158. Jacques Cartier did, in fact, ascend the St. Lawrence as far as Hochelaga, or Montreal. The Abbé Laverdière suggests that Champlain had not at this time seen the reports of Cartier. Had he seen them he would hardly have made this statement. Pont Gravé had been here several times, and may have been Champlain's incorrect informant. Vide Laverdière in loco.
159. Read Tuesday.
160. Richelieu Island, so called by the French, as early as 1635, nearly opposite Dechambeau Point.—Vide Laurie's Chart. It was called St Croix up to 1633. Laverdière in loco The Indians called it Ka ouapassiniskakhi.—Jésuit Relations, 1635, p. 13.
161. This river is now known as the Sainte Anne. Champlain says they named it Rivière Saincte Marie—Vide Quebec ed. Tome III. p. 175; Vol. II. p 201 of this work.
162. An inconsiderable island near Batiscan, not laid down on the charts.
163. The St. Maurice, anciently known as Trois Rivièrs, because two islands in its mouth divide it into three channels. Its Indian name, according to Père Le Jeune, was Metaberoutin. It appears to be the same river mentioned by Cartier in his second voyage, which he explored and reported as shallow and of no importance. He found in it four small islands, which may afterward have been subdivided into six. He named it La Riuiere die Fouez.—Brief Récit, par Jacques Cartier, D'Avezac ed. p. 28. Vide Relations des Jésuites, 1635, p. 13.
164. An eastern branch of the St Maurice River rises in a small lake, from which Lake St. John, which is an affluent of the Saguenay, may be reached by a land portage of not more than five or six leagues.