170 à Н.Р. SrEENSBY. 
sailing in under the north coast. At Point de Monts the waters narrow 
up to 40 km, which still is too broad to enable one to observe and fol- 
low the south coast with certainty, especially as it is rather low, and 
as more elevated ground first begins inland and a good way south of 
the coast. 
The Norsemen had therefore to continue past Pomt de Monts, and 
still further towards the south-west, without a suspicion of the bay- 
character of the waters, and without passing a single place which could 
be defined as “indented by fjords.” The coast had still the same mono- 
tonous character. 
Did they ever reach a place that was “indented by fjords”? Once 
they had to acknowledge that they had come into a sort of indentation, 
and that it was not the open sea that spread out to the south of them. 
This of course is correct. They must, at length, have reached so far in 
that they could see a continuous outline of land on the other side, 
but therefore they could by no means have realized the position, or 
that they were in regularly narrowing waters. They could not survey 
the course of the south coast’ very far. 
My opinion is that they could only apprehend the locality in this 
way, that they were on a changed course, or at a bend of the Furdu- 
strands, and that the coast they had followed up to now continued 
beyond this bend in some southerly direction, which in the meantime 
one could not survey. To this must be added that the place where the 
Norsemen must have come to this conclusion was just near the point 
where Saguenay River and the St. Lawrence River unite. But it was 
exactly this place, where French navigators formerly reckoned the limits 
of the sea and St. Lawrence River to be, which must have impressed 
the Norsemen as being fjord-indented. After passing Point de Monts the 
water again widens out to a breadth of about 65 km, and it is even 50 
km broad at Rimouski. Shortly afterwards, or about 75 km away from 
Saguenay, it suddenly draws in to 35 km, and afterwards narrows to 25 
km near the mouth of Saguenay River itself. Or more correctly, it 
practically narrows to hardly 20 km, as Green Island seen from the north 
and from the west must be one with the continent on the other side. 
We must assume that it first dawned upon the Norsemen that they 
were in a sort of bay while they were passing the above mentioned 35 
to 25 or 20 km broad stretch. And here we are at the same time in 
the fjord-indented locality; as the region where the St. Lawrence and 
the Saguenay unite, or the place which the navigators in the 17th and 
18th century always reckoned as the limits to the open sea, is exactly 
the place which necessarily must have impressed the Norsemen as being 
a locality where the sea formed two fjord-like indentations. 
Both the St. Lawrence and the Saguenay must necessarily have ap- 
pealed to the Norsemen as fjords of the northern type, which were well- 
known to them. In neither case could they grasp the fact of there being 
