The River Canada
The River
Canada is judg’d to be the largest of all the Rivers of
America, as those Rivers generally the largest of all in the World besides; it rises in the Western parts of this Province which remain yet undiscover’d, and in some places spreads itself into huge Lakes, some of them a hundred Miles in compass, which many little Islands dispersed up and down in them, and so running from the West about a hundred Leagues, falls at last into the North part of St.
Lawrence Bay, being that wide
Enboucheure of thirty five Miles breadth already mentioned. This River is extraordinary full of Fish, among which there is one sort more remarkable than the rest, call’d by the Inhabitants
Cadhothuis, having Heads resembling the Heads of Hares, and Bodies as white as Snow; they are taken for the most part before the Isle
de Lievres. The Countrey on both sides of the River is pleasant and indifferently fertile, especially towards the South-West, where upwards from the River the Ground rises into many little Hills, invested most of them with Vines, with which and several other sorts of Trees this Countrey abounds, being well water’d with a great many lesser Streams, all of them falling into the River
Canada.
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America: being an accurate description of the New World, John Ogilby, 1670.
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