Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03 by Samuel de Champlain
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more appropriate. It is a little remarkable that he does not in this
list mention the American wolf, _Lupus occidentalis_, so common in every part of Canada, and which he subsequently refers to as the animal especially dreaded by the deer. _Vide postea_, pp. 139, 157. 9. The site of Place Royale was on Point Callieres, so named in honor of Chevalier Louis Hector de Callieres Bonnevue, governor of Montreal in 1684. 10. It seems most likely that the name of this island was suggested by the marriage which Champlain had contracted with Helene Boulle, the year before. This name had been given to several other places. _Vide_ Vol. I. pp. 104, 105. 11. _Vide_ Vol. I. p. 268, note 191. _Walker and Miles's Atlas_, map 186. 12. The Lake of the Two Mountains. _Vide antea_, note 4. 13. On Champlain's local map of the Falls of St. Louis, the letter Q is wanting; but the expression, _ceste isle est au milieu du faut_, in the middle of the fall, as suggested by Laverdiere, indicates that the island designated by the letter R is Heron Island. _Vide postea_, R on map at p. 18. 14. _Grand Tibie_, so in the original. This is a typographical error for _grand terre_. _Vide_ Champlain, 1632, Quebec ed., p. 842. 15. The death of this young man may have suggested the name which was afterward given to the fall. He was, however, it is reasonable to suppose, hardly equal in sanctity of character to the Saint Louis of |
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