than that stated in the text. Further on, Champlain calls it two
leagues, which is nearly correct. Its latitude is about 45 deg. 20'. By
comparing the Admiralty charts and Champlain's map of this harbor, it
will be seen that important changes have taken place since 1604. The
tongue of land extending in a south-easterly direction, covered with
trees and shrubbery, which Champlain calls a sand-bank, has entirely
disappeared. The ordinary tides rise here from thirty-three to
thirty-nine feet, and on a sandy shore could hardly fail to produce
important changes.

68. According to the Abbe Laverdiere, the lower part of the Gulf was
sometimes called the Bay of St. Lawrence.

69. They had just crossed the Bay of Mines. From the place where they
crossed it to its head it is not far from fifteen leagues, and it is
about the same distance to Port Royal, from which he may here estimate
the distance inland.

70. Read June.--_Vide antea_, note 53.

71. Chignecto Bay. Charlevoix has Chignitou _ou Beau Bassin_. On De Laet's
Map of 1633, on Jacob von Meur's of 1673, and Homenn's of 1729, we have
B. de Gennes. The Cape of Two Bays was Cape Chignecto.

72. The rivers are the Cumberland Basin with its tributaries coming from
the east, and the Petitcoudiac (_petit_ and _coude_, little elbow, from
the angle formed by the river at Moncton, called the Bend), which flows
into Shepody Bay coming from the north or the direction of Gaspe.
Champlain mentions all these particulars, probably as answering to the
description given to them by M. Prevert of the place where copper mines