The Tide Rises In The Entrance Of The Brook, Where The Vessel
Lies, About Six Or Seven Feet.
This entrance forms a semi-circular cove,
on each side of which towards the St. Charles, the earth is
Elevated so as
to have the appearance of a breastwork; the bank to the west of the cove
is about eighteen feet high, and it was then covered with thick brush
which prevented its being fully examined. The distance of the place from
town is about one mile; the road is over the Dorchester Bridge and along
the north bank of the St. Charles." - (Quebec Gazette, August 30, 1843).
(From the Quebec Gazette, 30th August, 1843.)
"In the last number (August 25th, inst.,) of Le Canadien there is
an article of deep interest to the Canadian antiquarian: The long agitated
question as to the where or whereabouts Jacques Cartier, on his second
voyage from France to this continent spent the winter of 1535-6; whether
at the embouchure of the river bearing his name emptying into the St.
Lawrence some ten or eleven leagues above Quebec, or in the little river
St. Charles to the north of and at the foot of the promontory on which
Quebec is built, is now, it would seem, about to be solved and
satisfactorily set at rest by the recent discovery of the remains of a
vessel, doubtless of European construction, supposed to be those of La
Petite Hermine, of about 60 tons burthen, one of the three (La Grande
Hermine, La Petite Hermine, and L'Emerillon), with which on the 19th
of May, 1535, that intrepid navigator left St. Malo.
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