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53. For May read June. It could not have been in May, since Champlain Set
out from Port Mouton on his exploring expedition on the 19th of May,
which must have been a month previous to this.

54. What is now called the Petit Passage, the narrow strait between Long
Island and Digby Neck.

55. Gulliver's Hole, about two leagues south-west of Digby Strait.

56. Champlain here names the whole harbor or basin Port Royal, and not the
place of habitation afterward so called. The first settlement was on
the north side of the bay in the present hamlet of Lower Granville, not
as often alleged at Annapolis.--_Vide_ Champlain's engraving or map of
Port Royal.

57. "Equille." A name, on the coasts between Caen and Havre, of the fish
called lancon at Granville and St. Malo, a kind of malacopterygious
fish living on sandy shores and hiding in the sand at low tide.--
_Littre_. A species of sand eel. This stream is now known as the
Annapolis River. Lescarbot calls it Riviere du Dauphin.

58. This island is situated at the point where the Annapolis River flows
into the bay, or about nine miles from Digby, straight. Champlain on
his map gives it no name, but Lescarbot calls it Biencourville. It is
now called Goat Island.

59. Lescarbot calls it Claudiane. It is now known as Bear Island. It was
Sometimes called Ile d'Hebert, and likewise Imbert Island. Laverdiere