[439] Named Ste. Claire, or St. Clare, after a Franciscan nun, but now spelled St. Clair.
[440] Ontario, or Skanadario, native name for beautiful lake.
[441] Purchas, His Pilgrimage, London, 1614, p. 747. [Cf. Professor Shaler’s Introduction to the present volume.—Ed.]
[442] [See the note on the Jesuit Relations, following the succeeding chapter, and L. H. Morgan on the Geographical Distribution of the Indians, in the North American Review, vol. cx. p. 33.—Ed.]
[443] See chapter ii.; also, a paper on the discovery of copper relics near Brockville, in the Canadian Journal, 1856, pp. 329, 334.
[444] Colonial State Papers.
[445] Chapter iii.
[446] [Cf. Parkman’s references on the fur-trade, given in his Old Régime in Canada, p. 309.—Ed.]
[447] Sagard, Histoire du Canada, Paris edition, 1865, pp. 589, 781; Champlain, Paris edition, 1634, p. 220.
[448] Parkman, Pioneers of France, pp. 377, 378.