The only copy of the Avignon edition, known to us, is in the Lenox Library. Copies of the Paris edition are in the following libraries: Lenox (two issues), Harvard, Riggs (Georgetown University), Brown, British Museum, and Bibliothèque Nationale. Copies have been sold or priced as follows: Leclerq (1878), no. 778, 140 francs; O'Callaghan (1882), no. 1214, $35—it had cost him $32.50 in gold; Barlow (1889), no. 1275, $12.50; Dufossé, of Paris, priced (1891-1893) at 300 and 400 francs.
NOTES TO VOL. VII
(Figures in parentheses, following number of note, refer to pages of English text.)
[1] (p. [15]).—Matachias: ornaments of shell, beads, etc.; see vol. [ii.], note [17].
[2] (p. [31]).—Cf. vol. [ii.], page [67], where Plaisance is called Præsentis by the natives.
[3] (p. [39]).—Mille-pertuis: literally, "a thousand holes," referring to the appearance of transparent points in the leaves, caused by cells filled with volatile oil; a name applied to the genus Hypericum.
[4] (p. [171]).—Concerning these Iroquois prisoners, see Le Jeune's Relation of 1632 (vol. [v.], of this series, pp. [27-31], [45-49]).
[5] (p. [209]).—This was the Hébert-Couillard family. Hébert (see vol. [ii.], note [80]) bore the title of Sieur de l'Espinay (or L'Epinay), to which, upon his death (1627), his son-in-law Couillard succeeded.
[6] (p. [211]).—The Moulin Baude River, in Saguenay county, Que., enters the St. Lawrence four miles below Tadoussac. It is noted for the fine quarry of white statuary marble near its mouth.