The Makers of Canada: Champlain by N.-E. (Narcisse-Eutrope) Dionne
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history of Port Royal is closed. The two men left on September 2nd,
1607, on board the _Jonas_, commanded by Nicholas Martin. They stopped at Roscoff in Basse-Bretagne, and the vessel arrived at Havre de Grâce in the early days of October. Poutrincourt, his son Biencourt, and Lescarbot made a pilgrimage to Mont St. Michel, and Champlain went to Brouage, his native country, having sojourned in America for three years and five months. FOOTNOTES: [5] Norembega was the name applied at that time to a vast tract of country whose limits were nearly unknown. There was a river and a cape called Norembega. The river is now the Penobscot, and the cape is the southern extremity of the Acadian peninsula. [6] The Indians called this island _Pemetig_, which means _the island which is ahead_. The French settled here in 1613, and founded St. Sauveur on the north-eastern coast, in a splendid harbour which is to-day known as Bar Harbour. The remains of many of the French who were killed during the contest with the English, were interred at Point Fernald. At the point nearest the mainland there is a bridge of seven hundred feet in length, which communicates with the town of Trenton. [7] Champlain called the river _Peimtegoüet_. This word means _the place of a river where rapids exist_. The English have given their preference to the word _Penobscot_, which comes from the Indian _Penaouasket, the place where the earth is covered with stones_. [8] The Pilgrim Fathers, the founders of New England, landed at this |
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