The French Period 



but only a sea so large that they have never seen the end of it, 1604 

 nor heard that any one has; that the sun 3ets on the right of this ■ m P ain 

 lake, at the entrance to which there is a river extending towards 

 the Algonquins, and another towards the Iroquois, by way of 

 which they go to war. 



The three passages just quoted are from the Prince Society's translation. 

 They mark the beginning of Niagara Falls literature. The allusions to 

 the great lakes and to the Falls are unmistakable though no names are given. 

 The accounts are far from accurate, to be sure, but this is easily explained 

 when it is remembered that Champlain himself never saw the Falls and that 

 his statements concerning them are based on reports made to him by the 

 Indians in 1 603. 



1609 



LESCARBOT, Marc. Histoire de la Novvelle France, contenant les 1609 

 navigations, decouvertes, & habitations faites par les Francois es Indes Lescarbot 

 Occidentales & Nouvelle-France souz 1'avoeu & authorite de noz rois 

 tres-chretiens ... A Paris, Chez lean Milot. 1 609. Bk. II, pp. 

 366, 381, 383. 



Lescarbot's Histoire de la Novvelle France, 1609 edition, from the 

 middle of page 366, in chapter XIX, near the beginning thereof, to the 

 end of chapter XXI, on page 385, is an almost exact copy of Champlain's 

 Des Sauvages, from the top of page 28 in chapter VI, to the end of 

 chapter IX on page 48, edition 1870, volume II. 



Lescarbot, Marc. Histoire de la Nouvelle France suivie des muses 

 de la Nouvelle France. Paris: Edwin Tross. 1866. Vol. II, pp. 339, 

 341, 343. 



A reprint of the second edition, Paris, 1612. 



Lescarbot, Marc. The history of New France . . . with 



an English translation, notes and appendices by W. L. Grant . . . 



and an introduction by H. P. Biggar. . . . Toronto: Cham- 

 plain Society. 1907. Vol. II, pp. 135, 138, 139. 



The text and translation of the third edition, Paris, 1618. 



1644-45 



CiENDRON, Le Sleur. Qvelqves Particvlaritez dv pays Des Hvrons 1644—45 

 en la Novvelle France Remarquees par le Sieur Gendron, Docteur en Gendron 

 Medicine, qui a demeure dans ce pays-la fort long-temps. Redigees par 

 Jean Baptiste de Rocoles, Conseiller et Aumosnier du Roy, & Historiographe 



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