THE SECOND VOLUME. IX 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



A ERIEF HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE 

 LABRADOR PENINSULA. 



HISTORICAL NOTICE. 



Origin of Name — The Cabots — Gasjmr de Cortereal — Brest — Its 

 former Importance — The Ruins of Brest — Bradore Bay — Cause 

 of the Decline of Brest — The Count de Courtemanche — M. de 

 Brouagnes — The Labrador Company — Old Esquimaux Fort — 

 Imjiortance with Avhich Labrador was formerly regarded by the 

 French — Proposed Treaty with the Emperor Louis Napoleon — 

 Retarding Influence of Seignorial Grants — Mingan — Natashquan 



— Acadian Settlers. 



GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES. 



Paucity of our Knowledge respecting the Interior of the Labrador 

 Peninsula — The Moisie Gulf Watershed — The Oiinaneme — The 

 Region drained by the St. John, the Mingan, the Ounaneme, and 

 the Natashquan — The Region drained by the St. Augustine — 

 Importance of the St. Augustine — Indian Route to Hamilton Inlet — 

 Migrations of Animals on the St. Augustine — Rich Hunting-ground 



— Sterility of the Coast in the neighbourhood of the St. Augustine — 

 Hamilton Inlet — The Ashwanipi, or Hamilton River — The Great 

 Falls — Description of the Ashwanipi below Fort Nasqiiapee — The 

 Kenamou River — The Nasquapee or North-West River — The 

 Country North and North-West of Hamilton Inlet — The Country 

 South of the Inlet — The Plateau between the Inlet and the Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence — The Valley of the Ashwanipi 100 Miles from the 

 Inlet — Hudson Bay Company's Farm at Rigolette — The Ungava 

 District — South River — George's River — The Lakes of the District 



— Lake Caniapuscaw — General Aspect of the Country — The Red 

 Spruce — Tlie Country West of Ungava Bay — Basaltic Columns of 

 Henley Harbour — The Mistassinni Country — Infinite Number of 

 Erratics — Michaux the Botanist — His Journey across the Neck of 

 the Peninsula — Lake Mistassinni — Indian Superstitions with respect 

 to a Rock in Lake Mistassinni — Origin of the Name Mistassinni — 

 Michaux's Description of the Mistassinni Country . . page 125 



