. The description and natural history of the coasts of North America (Acadia). Natural history; Fisheries; Cod fisheries; Indians of North America; Sciences naturelles; Pêches; Indiens d'Amérique. 142 DESCRIPTION OF NORTH Geese,1 large and small Snipe, Plover, Curlews,2 and many other kinds of good game, and all these marshes are covered with very good meadow grass. [86] Continuing the route along the coast, one meets a little harbour which is at the other extremity of the bay, distant two leagues from Isle aux Moutons, and which is called Port It is very well situated for the cod
. The description and natural history of the coasts of North America (Acadia). Natural history; Fisheries; Cod fisheries; Indians of North America; Sciences naturelles; Pêches; Indiens d'Amérique. 142 DESCRIPTION OF NORTH Geese,1 large and small Snipe, Plover, Curlews,2 and many other kinds of good game, and all these marshes are covered with very good meadow grass. [86] Continuing the route along the coast, one meets a little harbour which is at the other extremity of the bay, distant two leagues from Isle aux Moutons, and which is called Port It is very well situated for the cod fishery which there abounds. This place is the first locality in which I wished to estab- lish the sedentary fishery, and for this purpose I had entered into partnership with the late Monsieur de Razilly and a merchant of Auray in Brittany. The Commandeur de Razilly lived at that time in La Haive, and he was my patron. My fishery was successful enough for this voyage. I sent back 1 Oyes blanches et grises in the original. These are without doubt the greater snow geese, of which the young are gray and the adults white. This seems well confirmed by Lescarbot {Histoire de la Nouvelle France, 1612, 815), who speaks of the gray geese in the meadows in spring and the white geese in fall. All the birds in the list except this and the following are identified in chapter xix. of the second volume of our author's work. a Corbegeos in the original. It is corbigeau in modern French, and Dr. Smith tells me the Acadian hunters to this day call the big curlew " ; 3 Now called Liverpool Bay, though the name Rossignol persists in the lake at the head of the river. It was named by De Monts and Champlain in 1604 from a captain found trading there, and Champlain gives a map of it. As to the site of our author's fishing establishment, we have no knowledge beyond that which he gives in this brief statement. More in his History of Queerts County, (6, 58, 69), says of it: &quo
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