. A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou : his voyages to the St. Lawrence. A bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534, with annotations, he coastfrom the Isle of Ascension hither is very good ground,wherein grow all sorts of trees that are in France, andsome fruits. The Point of Ongear is in 49 degrees and% . And the River of Caen and the Isle of Raquelle^lie and , and they are distant twelve Isle of Raquelle is in 48 degrees and ^ . Inthis River of Caen there is great store of fish; andhere the sea is not past eight leagues broad. The Isle of
. A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou : his voyages to the St. Lawrence. A bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534, with annotations, he coastfrom the Isle of Ascension hither is very good ground,wherein grow all sorts of trees that are in France, andsome fruits. The Point of Ongear is in 49 degrees and% . And the River of Caen and the Isle of Raquelle^lie and , and they are distant twelve Isle of Raquelle is in 48 degrees and ^ . Inthis River of Caen there is great store of fish; andhere the sea is not past eight leagues broad. The Isle of Raquelle is a very low isle, which isnear unto the south shore, hard by a high cape, which 1 Point of Ongear. The present Point des Monts. 2 The River of Caen, now the Matane. The Cape des Monts NotreDame is probably the present Mount Louis. 3 The Isle of Raquelle—in the Cosmographie of Alphonse, Raquelay— is doubtless Bic Island. 252 COURSE OF JEAN ALPHONSE is called the Cape of Marble/ There is no dangerthere at all, and between Raquelle and the Cape ofMarble ships may pass; and there is not from the isleto the south shore above one league, and from the. The St. Lawrence, Saguenay, and Anticosti isle unto the north shore about four leagues. The Isleof Raquelle and the entrance of Saguenay are , and are distant fourteen leagues, andthere are between them two small islands near the 1 The Cape of Marble. The highland of COURSE OF JEAN ALPHONSE north shore. The entrance of Saguenay is in 48 de-grees and y^ , and the entrance hath not past a quarterof a league in breadth, and it is dangerous toward , and two or three leagues within the entrance itbeginneth to wax wider and wider, and it seemeth tobe as it were an arm of the sea; and I think that thesame runneth into the Sea of Cathay,^ for it sendethforth there a great current, and there doth run in thatplace a terrible race or tide. And here the riverfrom the north shore to the south shore is not
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