96. This is an over-estimate.
97. Champlain here again, Vide note 90, refers to the issue bearing date
1613. It is not unlikely that while it bears the imprint of 1613, it
did not actually issue from the press till 1614.
98. The lake or expansion of the Ottawa on the southern side of Allumet
Island was called the Lake of the Algonquins, as Allumet Island was
oftentimes called the Island of the Algonquins.
99. The River Ottawa.
100. Père Vimont calls this tribe Kotakoutouemi. Relation des Jésuites, 1640, p. 34. Père Rogueneau gives Outaoukotouemiouek, and remarks that their language is a mixture of Algonquin and Montagnais. Vide Relation des Jésuites, 1650. p. 34; also Laverdière in loco.
101. Blues, blueberries. The Canada blueberry. Vaccinium Canadense.
Under the term blues several varieties may have been included.
Charlevoix describes and figures this fruit under the name Bluet du
Canada. Vide Description des Plantes Principales de l'Amérique
Septentrionale, in Histoire de la Nouvelle France, Paris. 1744,
Tom. IV. pp. 371, 372; also Vol. I: p 303, note 75, of this work.
102. At its junction with the Mattawan, the Ottawa's course is from the north. What is known as its east branch rises 150 miles north of the city of Ottawa. Extending towards the west in a winding course for the distance of about 300 miles, it turns towards the southeast, and a few miles before it joins the Mattawan its course is directly south. From its northeastern source by a short portage is reached the river Chomouchouan, an affluent of Lake St. John and the Saguenay.
103. Mattawa is 197 miles from Ottawa. We have no means of giving the latitude with entire accuracy, but it is about 46° 20'.
104. Lac du Talon and Lac la Tortue.
105. Nipissings, or Nipissirini. Champlain writes Nipisierinii.