IN A FISHING COUNTRY 



the 'Look-out' or 'Gaze' Point of the first 

 English settlers have become 'Pointe a 

 Gaze'. The sins are not all on the one side. 

 English geographers are blamed for wrest- 

 ing from the Sieur de Monts a proper re- 

 cord of his achievements when they write 

 'Pointe des Monts'. And yet de Monts did 

 not name the Cape, nor even see it as far as 

 I can discover, and this was the land of the 

 Saiivayes des Monts Peles before he sailed 

 the Gulf. The earliest maps prove the case. 

 Colonel Nairne stipulated in 1762 that his 

 seigniory should be called 'Murray's Bay'. 

 This appears to have slipped into 'Murray 

 Bay' — still officially the name of the vil- 

 lage, I believe, though 'Malbaie' is altern- 

 atively proper for bay and river, and the 

 tendency in all cases is to revert to the 

 Champlain christening. An error in 

 Thwaite's monumental edition of the Re- 

 lations des Jesuites is worth correcting. 

 Malbaie is there derived from 'Bale des 

 Molues' — transposed and mishandled ; moh 

 fie being the old form of moriie, meaning 

 'cod'. This is true of the Gaspe Malbaie, 

 but not of the place to which the note is 

 directed. Lac a Gravel takes name from 

 the Indian who found the lake, or harbour- 

 ed there before time of memory. The 

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