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Ilochelaga, a town of say 2,000 souls, jud<^ii)g from the Iluron average 

 and from Carticr's details. The dese-ondants of tlie Ilochelagans in 

 1642 pointed out the spots where {horo were 'several towns" on the 

 island. Mr. Beaurham]) liolds, with Parkman, ])awson and other 

 writere, tliat " thoso who pointed out sjjots in 1G42 were of an Aljonquin 

 tribe, not descendants of the Mohawk Tlocheiagans, but locally their succes- 

 sors." V>\\i I cannot accept this Algonquin theory, as their connection 

 with the Ilochelagans is too explicit and I shall give other reasons 

 further on. The savages, it is true, called the island by an Algonquin 

 name; "the island where there was a city or village,''' the Algonquin 



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phrase for which was Minitik-Outen-Entagougiban, but these later 

 terms have small bearing. The site of one of the towns on the island is 

 conjectured, from the finding of relics, to have been at Longue Pointe, 

 nine miles below Hocholaga ; a village appears from Cartier's account of 

 his third voyage to havelexistcd about the Lachino J{a])id8 ; and another 

 was some miles below, probably at Point St. Charles or the Little lîiver 

 at Verdun. Fourteen skeletons, buried after the Mohawk fashion, have 

 been;|discovered on the upper slope of West mount, the southern ridge of 

 Mount Royal, about a mile from llochelaga, and not far from an old Indian 

 ■well, indicating possibly the proximity of another prehistoric town-site of 

 the race, and at any rate a burying ground. The identification and 



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