4. The Common Deer, Cervus Virginianus. It has the widest range of any of the deer family. It is still found in every degree of latitude from Mexico to British Columbia. Vide Antelope and Deer of America by John Dean Caton, LL.D., Boston, 1877.
76. Palombes. The passenger, or wild pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius.
77. Le 8 Aoust. Laverdière suggests with much plausibility that this should read "The 8th of July." Champlain could hardly have found it necessary to remain at Tadoussac from the 6th of July to the 8th of August for favorable weather to sail. If he had been detained by any other cause, it would probably have been deemed of sufficient gravity to be specially mentioned.
VOYAGES
AND
DISCOVERIES IN NEW FRANCE,
From the year 1615 to the end of the year 1618.
BY
SIEUR DE CHAMPLAIN,
Captain in ordinary to the King in the Western Sea.
WHERE ARE DESCRIBED
The manners, customs, dress, mode of warfare, hunting, dances, festivals, and method of burial of various savage peoples, with many remarkable experiences of the author in this country, and an account of the beauty, fertility, and temperature of the same.
PARIS.
CLAUDE COLLET, in the Palace, at the gallery of the Prisoners.