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thought as to other perished nations. Cartier, finding 

 that the great Kiver Hochelaga was no highway to 

 the Indies,, but learning that towards its source was 

 the land of "Saguenay," celebrated for its metallic 

 wealth, made it an object in his third voyage to reach 

 the land of Saguenay,* now known to us as the 

 copper region of Lake Superior. He failed, however, 

 to surmount the rapids of the St. Lawrence, and from 

 the fragments of his journal which remain seems to 

 have found reason to dread hostilities on the part of 

 the natives, now better informed as to the ambitious 

 and selfish designs of the French. No mention is 

 made of Hochelaga, but the voyager was entertained 

 by the people of another town or village apparently 

 near the Lachine rapids, which he names Tutonaguy. 



In 1603, when Champlain ascended the St. Law- 

 rence, either Hochelaga had disappeared, or the 

 explorer heard nothing of it, and we hear no more of 

 its site till 1642, more than a century after the voy- 

 ages of Cartier, when the Sieur de Maisonneuve 

 selected the locality for the site of the future Montreal 

 an instance of the fact which perpetually recurs in 

 the history both of the old world and the new, that 

 the exigencies of defence or the convenience of sub- 

 sistence and communication have dictated to the 

 primitive peoples of bygone ages the selection of 

 localities which have approved themselves to their 

 successors up to our own time. An isolated and de- 



* This name, like many others, has been restricted in use 

 to a locality scarcely that to which it was originally applied. 



