[43] (p. [235]).—Robert du Thet (see Relation of 1613-14, vol. ii., p. 233).
[44] (p. [239]).—See vol. ii., note [45].
[45] (p. [249]).—Now called Gaspé, and sometimes Gaspesia; the peninsula occupying the southeastern extremity of the province of Quebec, extending from the St. Lawrence to the Bay of Chaleurs and Restigouche River. Cartier, on his first voyage, landed on this coast, and took possession of the country in the name of France. From 1636 to 1685, it was governed by Nicholas Denys, Sieur de Fronsac (for whom the strait of Canso was named; see vol. i., note [40]); for an account of him, see Murdoch's Nova Scotia, vol. i., pp. 124-131. For descriptive and statistical account of this region, see Langelier's Sketch of Gaspesia (Quebec, 1884).
Laverdière (Champlain, p. 68, note 2) cites Abbé Maurault as deriving the name Gaspé from the Abenaqui word Katsepioui, "that which is separated," referring to Cape Forillon (known to Cartier as Honguedo)—a remarkable mountainous headland, 700 feet high, extending into the sea between Cape Rosier and the Bay of Gaspé; it is the most eastern point in the Shickshock Mountains (described in vol. ii., note [40]).
The Récollet, Christian Le Clercq, was a missionary in Gaspé from 1675 to 1687, and wrote an account of his work there—Relation de la Gaspésie (Paris, 1691). He is noted as the inventor of a system of hieroglyphics, by which he taught the Micmacs to read and write, and which those tribes still use. In 1866, a volume of catechism, hymns, prayers, etc., was printed in these characters, by the Leopold Society of Vienna, Austria.
[46] (p. [259]).—See vol. ii., notes [35], [77].
[47] (p. [263]).—See vol. ii., note [81].
[48] (p. [263]).—Menauo; probably a misprint for Menano (as it appears post): is now known as Grand Manan Island, a favorite summer resort.