219. Isle Percée.—Vide Vol. II, note 290.
220. Baye de Chaleurs. This bay was so named by Jacques Cartier on account of the excessive heat, chaleur, experienced there on his first voyage in 1634.—Vide Voyage de Jacques Cartier, Mechelant, ed. Paris, 1865, p. 50. The depth of the bay is about ninety miles and its width at the entrance is about eighteen. It receives the Ristigouche and other rivers.
221. By a portage of about three leagues from the river Matane to the
Matapedia, the Bay of Chaleur may be reached by water.
222. Tregaté, Tracadie. By a very short portage Between Bass River and
the Big Tracadie River, this place may be reached.
223. Misamichy, Miramichi. This is reached by a short portage from the
Nepisiguit to the head waters of the Miramichi.
224. It is obvious from this description that the island above mentioned is
Shediac Island, and the river was one of the several emptying into
Shediac Bay, and named Souricoua, as by it the Indians went to the
Souriquois or Micmacs in Nova Scotia.
225. The Strait of Canseau.
226. St. Lawrence. This island had then borne the name of the Island of Cape Breton for a hundred years.
227. The Bay of Fundy.
228. The River St John by which they reached the St Lawrence, and through the River Richelieu the lake of the Iroquois. It was named Lake Champlain in 1609. Vide Vol. II. p. 223.