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Notes on Aboriginal Antiquities. 



It was not only distant four or five miles from the place at 

 the foot of the current where Cartier lauded, but was at some 

 distance from the river, and on the elevated sandy terrace at the 

 base of the mountain, which is more suitable both to the growth of 



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Plan of Hocbelaga— (Reduced from Ramusio's translation of Cartier.) 



a, Gate, h, Square, c, Chief's House, d, Wall of defence, c, Plan 

 of a single house, (a) doorway and fire-place. /, Section of part of the 

 wall of defence. 



oaks, and to the culture of Indian corn as practised by the In- 

 dians, than any other part of the island. It was distant about a 

 quarter of a league from the brow of the mountain, and con- 



