[290] This bake-house appears to have been somewhere at the foot of Abraham's Hill.
[291] It crossed the St Charles a little higher than the Marine Hospital, exactly at the foot of Crown Street.
[292] A small bridge supported on masonry has since been built on this spot, exactly across the main road, at Brown's mills, Beauport.
[293] The Great River. Such was the name the Lorette Huron Indians pressed Hon. Mr. Panet to take when they elected him their honorary chief.
[294] A famous Chasseur of Lake St. Charles.
[295] Robert Buchanan's fine lines describe well the sudden coming of winter:
"Then, with a gust,
Old Winter tumbled shrieking from the hills,
His white Hair flowing in the wind."
[296] Emma Duchesnay, wife of Robt. LeMoine, Esq., Ottawa, was the last born there.
[297] Beauport Church, it is said, was built on this Fief du Buisson.
[298] "Une chandelle faite avec la graisse d'un pendu."