And lower down, By the King, Delomenie. And sealed with the single label of
the great seal of yellow wax.

Collated with the original by me, Councillor, Notary, and secretary of the
King.

I proceeded to Honfleur for embarkation, where I found the vessel of Pont
Grave in readiness. He left port on the 5th of April. I did so on the 13th,
arriving at the Grand Bank on the 15th of May, in latitude 45 deg. 15'. On the
26th, we sighted Cape St. Mary,[288] in latitude 46 deg. 45', on the Island of
Newfoundland. On the 27th of the month, we sighted Cape St. Lawrence, on
Cape Breton, and also the Island of St. Paul, distant eighty-three leagues
from Cape St. Mary.[289] On the 30th, we sighted Isle Percee and
Gaspe,[290] in latitude 48 deg. 40', distant from Cape St. Lawrence from
seventy to seventy-five leagues.

On the 3d of June, we arrived before Tadoussac, distant from Gaspe from
eighty to ninety leagues; and we anchored in the roadstead of
Tadoussac,[291] a league distant from the harbor, which latter is a kind of
cove at the mouth of the river Saguenay, where the tide is very remarkable
on account of its rapidity, and where there are sometimes violent winds,
bringing severe cold. It is maintained that from the harbor of Tadoussac it
is some forty-five or fifty leagues to the first fall on this river, which
comes from the north-north-west. The harbor is small, and can accommodate
only about twenty vessels. It has water enough, and is under shelter of the
river Saguenay and a little rocky island; which is almost cut by the river;
elsewhere there are very high mountains with little soil and only rocks and
sand, thickly covered with such wood as fir and birch. There is a small