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possible at present to decide upon this subject, and it must remain with 

 the probabilities against Ingram having descended the St. John. 



Champlain, in his narrative of his voyage to Canada in 1603, mentions 

 in the present New Brunswick, Tregate, Misamichy, whose identity is 

 plain, and also a river Souricoua, which has been supposed to represent 

 either the Shediac or the Scadouc, but which I have already (page 250) 

 given reasons for believing is a river near Pictou, It is possible that the 

 location of the legend of the Gougou (chapter XIII.) is Miscou Island. 

 In his voyage to Acadia in 1604, he entered the Bay of Fuhdy, and 

 coasted to Minas Basin, then coasted past Cape Chignecto to the New 

 Brunswick coast. The identity of the places described and named by 

 him in New Brunswick has already been in part discussed in the preced- 

 ing monograph (page 349), and in summary, with a few new points, is 

 as follows : 



B. St. Louis, on his maps (no doubt the '-petite rivière" of his 

 narrative) was Vaughans Creek, at St. Martins; it probably exists 

 corrupted in Point St. Tooley, the eastern headland of Quaco Harbor. 

 That it was Vaughans Creek, and not the other stream at Quaco, is 

 shown partly by the position of the name E. S. Louis, on the 1612 map, 

 and partly by the fact that the name St. Tooley is attached to the eastern, 

 and not the western headland,^ 



llle perdue, on the maps only, was probably the small island at Quaco 

 Head. The " caj) assez bas, qui avance à la mer," of his narrative, is no 

 doubt Quaco Head, which is low at its extremity. The mountain, "un 

 peu dans les terres . . . qui a la forme d'un chapeau de Cardinal," is 

 no doubt Porcupine Mountain, in the Mount Theobald district, which 

 has, as seen from the hills near Quaco, a symmetrical form, with steep 

 sides and a flattened top, answering very well to the shape given in 

 pictures for a cardinal's hat.^ 



The "poiyite de rocher qui avance , un peu vers Veau," four leagues to 

 the southwest, where there were strong and very dangerous tides, was no 

 doubt the present McCoy Head ; and it was this point which is called Cap 

 de Mine on his maps, for near it they found a cove about half a league in 

 circuit containing a mine of iron. This mine was probabl}' at West 

 Beach, between Cape Spencer and Black Eiver, where iron occurs in the 

 clifftil The beautiful bay containing three islands and a rock was at the 

 mouth of the St. John. Of the islands, the two at a league from the 

 cape making to the west, were of course Mohogany and Thumb Cap, and 

 that at the south of the river was Partridge Island ; while the rock was 



1 On the James I. Map of 1610, showing clearly Champlain's voyage, there is 

 one additional name, C. Ronde, further up the Bay of Fundy, near Mathews Head, 

 to which, indeed, it was probably applied from a distance. 



2 Slafter and others name this Mount Theobald, but this is merely the name of 

 a district, and the mountain itself is locally called Porcupine Mountain. 



3 As Dr. G. F. Matthew tells me. 



