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Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02 by Samuel de Champlain
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269. _Riviere de l'Isle Verte_, or Green Island River, is the River
St. Mary; and Green Island is Wedge Island near its mouth. The
latitude at the mouth of the river is 45 deg. 3'. This little island is
called _I. Verte_ on De Laet's map, and likewise on that of
Charlevoix; on the map of the English and French Commissaries, Liscomb
or Green Island.

270. This inlet has now the incongruous name of Country Harbor: the three
islands at its mouth are Harbor, Goose, and Green Islands. The inlet
is called Mocodome on Charlevoix's map.

271. There are several islets on the east of St. Catharine's River, near
the shore, which Laverdiere suggests are the _Isles Rangees_. They
are exceedingly small, and no name is given them on the Admiralty
charts.

272. Tor Bay.

273. _Le Port de Savalette_. Obviously White Haven, which is four leagues
from the Rangees and six from Canseau, as stated in the text.
Lescarbot gives a very interesting account of Captain Savalette, the
old Basque fisherman, who had made forty-two voyages into these
waters. He had been eminently successful in fishing, having taken
daily, according to his own account, fifty crowns' worth of codfish,
and expected his voyage would yield, ten thousand francs. His vessel
was of eighty tons burden, and could take in a hundred thousand dry
codfish. He was well known, and a great favorite with the voyagers to
this coast. He was from St. Jean de Luz, a small seaport town in the
department of the Lower Pyrenees in France, near the borders of Spain,
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