. Young folks library . ayd next day after being our Ladie day of August thefifteenth of the moneth, hauing passed the Straight, wehad notice of certaine lands that wee left toward theSouth, which landes are full of uery great and high 140 A Book of Famous Explorers hilles, and this Cape wee named The Island of theAssumption, . . The Countreys lying North mayplainely be perceiued to be higher than the Southerly, more thenthirty leaguesin trendedthe s aydlandes abouttoward theSouth: fromthe sayd dayvntill Tewes-day noonefollowing, thewinde cameWest, andtherefore weebended to-
. Young folks library . ayd next day after being our Ladie day of August thefifteenth of the moneth, hauing passed the Straight, wehad notice of certaine lands that wee left toward theSouth, which landes are full of uery great and high 140 A Book of Famous Explorers hilles, and this Cape wee named The Island of theAssumption, . . The Countreys lying North mayplainely be perceiued to be higher than the Southerly, more thenthirty leaguesin trendedthe s aydlandes abouttoward theSouth: fromthe sayd dayvntill Tewes-day noonefollowing, thewinde cameWest, andtherefore weebended to-ward theNorth, purposing to goeand see the land that webefore had spied. Beingarriued there, we found thesayd landes, as it wereioyned together, and low towardthe Sea. And the Northerlymountaines that are vpon thesayd low lands stretch East, and West, and a quarterof the South. Our wild men told vs that there wasthe beginning of Saguenay, and that it was land inhab-ited, and that thence commeth the red Copper, of them. Cartier Erects a Cross. Discovery of the St. Lawrence 141 named Caignetdaze. There is betweene the Southerlylands, and the Northerly about thirty leagues distance,and more than two hundreth fadome depth. The saydmen did moreouer eertifie vnto vs, that there was theway and beginning of the great riuer of Hochelagaand ready way to Canada, which riuer the further itwent the narrower it came, euen vnto Canada, and thatthen there was fresh water, which went so farre up-wards, that they had neuer heard of any man who hadgone to the head of it, and that there is no other pas-sage but with small boates. . Vpon the first ofSeptember we departed out of the said hauen, purposingto go toward Canada; and about 15 leagues from ittoward the West, and Westsouthwest, amidst the riuer,there are three Islands, ouer against the which there isa riuer which runneth swift, and is of great depth, andit is that which leadeth, and runneth into the countreyand kingdome of Saguenay, as by t
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