[canonc] DOCHET (ST. CROIX) ISLAND 161 
auec moy. A quelque huict lieues de l’isle, tirant à la riuiere S. Iean, en 
trouuasmes vne de cuiure, qui n’estoit pas pur; neantmoins bonne selon le rap- 
port du mineur, lequel disoit que l’on en pourroit tirer 18. pour cent. Plus 
outre nous en trouuasmes d’autres moindres que ceste cy. Quand nous fusmes 
au lieu où nous pretendions que fut celle que nous cherchions le sauuage ne la 
peut trouuer: de sorte qu’il fallut nous enreuenir, laissant ceste recerche pour 
vne autre fois. 
Comme ie fus de retour de ce voyage, le sieur de Mons resolut de renuoyer 
ses vaissaux en France, & aussi le sieur de Poitrincourt qui n’y estoit venu 
que pour son plaisir, & pour recognoistre de pais & les lieux propres pour y 
habiter, selon le desir qu’il en auoit: c’est pourquoy il demanda au sieur 
de Mons le port Royal, qu’il luy donna suiuant le pouuoir & commission 
qu’il auoit du Roy. Il renuoya aussi Ralleau son Secretaire pour mettre ordre 
à quelques affaires touchant le voyage; lesquels par-[40]tirent de Visle 8S. Croix 
le dernier iour d’Aoust audict an 1604. 
TRANSLATION. 
CHAR THE RD Vic 
Sieur de Monts, finding no place betier adapted for a permanent scttlement than 
the island ef St. Croix, fortifies it and builds dwellings. Return of the Vessels to 
France, and of Ralleau, Secretary of Sieur de Monts, for the purpose of arranging 
some business affairs. 
Having found no more suitable place than this island, we commenced 
making a barricade on a little islet’ a short distance from the island, which 
served as a station for placing our cannon. All worked so energetically that 
in a little while it was put in a state of defence, although the mosquitoes 

1 At a first glance, the islet here mentioned would seem to be the Nubble, 
named on our maps (Fig. 3, 14) Wrights Nubble, and such was formerly my 
own opinion (expressed in my “ Historic Sites of New Brunswick,” in these 
Transactions, V., section ii., 263). But a more thorough study of the subject, 
especially as based upon a comparison of Champlain’s and the modern maps 
reduced to the same scale and superposed (Fig. 14) has convinced me that the 
present Wrights Nubble is a remnant of the point on Champlain’s map, and 
that the islet on which his cannon were placed was farther to the southward, 
and is now entirely washed away. If this is not the case, and the present 
Wrights Nubble is the one on which de Monts placed his cannon, Champlain’s 
map must be distorted in its southern part to a degree quite impossible to 
believe of so skilled a cartographer. My present interpretation allows the 
maps to be harmonized perfectly, and it is confirmed by the relation of 
Wrights Nubble to the ledge on the southeast of the island (the one near the 
point with the two cannon on Fig. 8). The reason why the present Nubble 
has been preserved, while all the intermediate part of the island has been 
washed away is very plain ; the Nubble is protected by the rock on which it 
rests which rises above the highest tides, while in the intermediate part the 
rock is wanting and the sea now washes directly against the soft soil, easily 
undermining it. It is to be remembered that the island stood some feet higher 
in Champlain’s time (page 136). 
Champlain’s map seems to show the little islet on which the cannon were 
mounted as united by a narrow neck with the main island, but in his text, 
Sec. II., 1902. 11 
