126. Petites pommes sauuages. Probably the American crab-apple, Pyrus
coronaria.
127. Noix This may include the butternut and some varieties of the
walnut. Vide Vol. I. p. 264.
128. Doubtless the May-apple, Podophyllum peltatum. In the wilds of Simcoe this fruit may have seemed tolerable from the absence of others more desirable. Gray says, "It is slightly acid, mawkish, eaten by pigs and boys." Cf. Florula Bostioniensis, by Jacob Bigelow, M.D. Boston, 1824, pp. 215, 216.
129. Les Chesnes, ormeaux, & heslres. For oaks see Vol I. p. 264. Elms, plainly the white elm, Ulmus Americana, so called in contradistinction to the red or slippery elm, Ulmus fulva. The savages sometimes used the bark of the slippery elm in the construction of their canoes when the white birch could not be obtained. Vide Charlevoix's Letters, 1763, p. 94. For the beech, see Vol. I. p. 264.
130. Perdrix. Canada Grouse, Tetrao Canadensis, sometimes called the Spruce Partridge, differing from the partridge of New England, which is the Ruffed Grouse, Bonasa umbellus. This latter species is, however, found likewise in Canada.
131. Lapins. The American hare, Lepus Americanus.
132. Cerises petites. Reference is evidently here made to the wild red cherry, Prunus Pennsylvanica, which is the smallest of all the native species. Cf. Vol. I. p. 264.
133. Merises. The wild black cherry, Prunus serotina.
134. The Carantouanais. Vide Carte de la Nouvelle France, 1632, also Vol. I. p. 304. This tribe was probably situated on the upper waters of the Susquehanna, and consequently south of the Five Nations, although we said inadvertently in Vol. I. p. 128 that they were on the west of them. General John S. Clark thinks their village was at Waverly, near the border of Pennsylvania In Vol. I. p. 143. in the 13th line from the top, we should have said the Carantouanais instead of Entouhonorons.
135. The Entouhonorons were a part, it appears, of the Five Nations. Champlain says they unite with the Iroquois in making war against all the other tribes except the Neutral Nation. Lake Ontario is called Lac des Entouhonorons, and Champlain adds that their country is near the River St. Lawrence, the passage of which they forbid to all other tribes. Vide Vol. I. pp. 303, 304. He thus appears to apply the name Iroquois to the eastern portion of the Five Nations, particularly those whom he had attacked on Lake Champlain; and the Huron name, Entouhonorons, to the western portion. The subdivisions, by which they were distinguished at a later period, were probably not then known, at least not to Champlain.