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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Quebec, 1613

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A facsimile from a map by Samuel Champlain (1613) of the vicinity of Quebec on the St. Lawrence River, where on 3 July, 1608, Champlain laid the foundations of the city which still bears the name of Quebec. The map is keyed to show (A) Our habitation, now the Point, (B) cleared ground for grain, later, the Esplanade, or Grande Place, (C) gardens, (D) small brook, (E) river, where Cartier wintered, called by him St. Croix, now the St. Charles, (F) river of the marshes, (G) grass-land, (H) Montmorency Falls, twenty-five fathoms high (really forty fathoms high), (I) end of Falls of Montmorency, now Lake of the Snows, (R) Bear Brook, now La Riviere de Beauport, (S) Brook du Gendre, now Riviere des Fons, (T) meadows overflowed, (V) Mont du Gas, very high, now the bastion Roi a la Citadelle, (X) swift mill-brooks, (Y) gravelly shore, where diamonds are found, (Z) Point of Diamonds; 9 sites of Isle d'Orleans, (L) very narrow point, afterward known as Cap de Levis, (M) Roaring River, which extends to the Etechemins, (N) St. Lawrence River, (O) lake in the Roaring River, (P) mountains and "bay which I named New Biscay," and (Q) lake of the native's cabins.

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