. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . , and the reader finds described or men-tioned in his narratives many objects now familiar, but thenstrange. He fully describes, for instance, the gar-pike of West-ern lakes, he mentions the moose under the Algonquin name orignac, the seal under the name of sea-lion, the musk-rat,and the horseshoe-crab. He describes almost every point andharbor on the north-east coast, giving the names by whichmany of them are since known; for instance, Mount Desert,which he calls Isle des Monts Deserts, me
. A larger history of the United States of America, to the close of President Jackson's administration . , and the reader finds described or men-tioned in his narratives many objects now familiar, but thenstrange. He fully describes, for instance, the gar-pike of West-ern lakes, he mentions the moose under the Algonquin name orignac, the seal under the name of sea-lion, the musk-rat,and the horseshoe-crab. He describes almost every point andharbor on the north-east coast, giving the names by whichmany of them are since known; for instance, Mount Desert,which he calls Isle des Monts Deserts, meaning simply Desert 9 130 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Mountains, so that the accent need not be laid, as is now usual,on the second syllable. We know from him that while yet un-visited by white men, the Indians of the Lake Superior regionnot only mined for copper, but melted it into sheets, and ham-mered it into shape, making bracelets and arrow-heads. Car-tier, in 1535, had mentioned the same thing, but not so all Champlains descriptions, whether of places or people. /^^^BECCL. CHAMPLAIN S FORTIFIED RESIDENCE AT QUEBEC. have the value that comes of method and minuteness. Whenhe ends a chapter with This is precisely what I have seenof this northern shore, or, This is what I have learned fromthose savages, we know definitely where his knowledge beginsand ends, and whence he got his information. It is fortunate for the picturesqueness of his narrative thathe fearlessly ventures into the regions of the supernatural, butalways upon very definite and decided testimony. It would THE FRENCH VOYAGEURS. 131 be a pity, for instance, to spare the Gougou from his Gougou was a terrible monster reported by the savagesto reside on an island near the Bay of Chaleur. It was in theform of a woman, but very frightful, and so large that themasts of a tall vessel would not reach the waist. The Gougoupossessed pockets, into which he — or she — used to put theIndia
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