exploration, and not actual settlement.--_Vide_ an account of De
Chastes in the _Memoir_, Vol. I.

11. In Champlain's report of the voyage of 1603, after obtaining what
information he could from the natives relating to the St. Lawrence and
the chain of lakes, he says they informed him that the last lake in the
chain was salt, and he therefore believed it to be the South Sea. He
doubtless enlarged verbally before the king upon the feasibility of a
passage to China in this way.

12. The commission here referred to was doubtless the one renewed to him in
1608, after he had made his searches on the shores of New England and
Nova Scotia, and after the commission or charter of 1603 had been
revoked.

Champlain is here stating the advantages of a settlement in the
interior, on the shores of the St. Lawrence, rather than on the
Atlantic coast.

13. In this chapter, Champlain speaks of events stretching through several
years; but in the next he confines himself to the occurrences of 1603,
when De Monts obtained his charter.




CHAPTER II.

DESCRIPTION OF SABLE ISLAND; CAPE BRETON; LA HEVE; PORT AU MOUTON; PORT
CAPE NEGRE; SABLE BAY AND CAPE; CORMORANT ISLAND; CAPE FOURCHU; LONG