A LABRADOR SPRING 



be the passage to Cataia." Beyond Carder's 

 farthest west lay China, and the rapids above 

 Montreal bear the name La-Chine even to the 

 present day. 



In an ancient " Discourse of divers Voyages " 

 it is said that " Many haue traualed to search 

 the coast of the lande of Labrador, as well to 

 thintente to knowe howe farre or whyther it 

 reachethe, as also whether there bee any passage 

 by sea throughe the same into the Sea of Sur 

 and the Islandes of Maluca, which are under the 

 Equinoctial line: thinkynge that the waye 

 thyther shulde greatly bee shortened by this 

 vyage." Sebastian Cabot had in truth " a great 

 flame of desyre " increased in his heart " to 

 attempt some notable thynge " when he heard 

 that " Don Christopher Colonus, Genuese, had 

 discovered the coastes of India, whereof was 

 great talke in all the courte of kynge Henry the 

 Seunth, who then reigned : in so much that all 

 men with great admiration affirmed it to bee 

 a thynge more diuine then humane, to sayle 

 by the Weste into the East where spices growe, 

 by a way that was never knowne before." 



Cartier said that the Indians described some 

 marvellous fishes that lived in the Bay of Seven 



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