. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, this place re-turned. Once having established the fish-spearing place, the rest of the theoryproves itself. Champlain also in another place describes Cahiague as a bourgof from 200 to 300 cabanes, and each one of these held from two to five families;so that, at this time, 1615, this bourg was a metro])olis of the Hurons with a largepopulation. Take the area of known Indian remains here, such as ash-heaps,broken pottery, pipes, charred corn, fishbones, etc., and compare them with anyof the other well known Indian village sites nearby, and these remain
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, this place re-turned. Once having established the fish-spearing place, the rest of the theoryproves itself. Champlain also in another place describes Cahiague as a bourgof from 200 to 300 cabanes, and each one of these held from two to five families;so that, at this time, 1615, this bourg was a metro])olis of the Hurons with a largepopulation. Take the area of known Indian remains here, such as ash-heaps,broken pottery, pipes, charred corn, fishbones, etc., and compare them with anyof the other well known Indian village sites nearby, and these remains were withoutdoul^t nmch more numerous here than elsewhere. The system of Indian trailsconverges here. Why ? Because at this great source of food supply, The fish-spearing place, was the undoubted site of the metropolis, Cahiague. Champlainvisited Cahiague between August 20th and Sept. 1st, 1615, and describes it as theprincipal bourg containing two liundred rather large-sized lodges (p. .^On 518 o)p. 277 J. REPORT. 57 *X;. 58 AECH^OLOGICAL EEPOET. The component parts of Cahiague, according to the authority of theRev. A. E. Jones, , (see rej)ort 1908, p. 194), are Xa-aia-xon-ae, and the mean-ing shortly is Where fish-spearing is carried on or The fish-spearing place. Again referring to Champlains itinerary at p. 522, On August 17th, Iarrived at Cahiague, and we left this village and passed on (or along) the shoreof a little lake three leagues distant from said village. Here are extensive is another lake communicating with it, which is twenty-six leagues in cir-cumference, and it flows into the little one at the spot where the great fisheriesmentioned are carried on, by means of a number of weirs which almost close theNarrows, leaving only small openings where the nets are set and in which the fishare taken. Roth these lakes empt} into the Mer Douce. (Xote—l)y the TJiverSevern). Champlains description would only describe, and that minutely,
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