ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

18, line 40, read inhabitants.

21, last line, for sued read used.

41, line 3, read D'Avaugour.

lines 7 and 8, for 1685, read 1665.

Access could not be had to original sources when these were

lines 10 and 13, for 1685, read 1645.) printed.

line 29, read Ouabache.

for note substitute the following:-This expression is frequently to be met with in French official documents of this period and subsequently. It would appear to be a short rendering of the longer expression: "Canada......et autres pays de la France en Amerique Septentrionale." 46, note, Add to this note: [It has since appeared by information procured for the Government of Ontario, in London, that the true description is that above printed from the copy at Ottawa.] 58, line 8, The name, Penvecet, in this document and so spelled in the N. Y. Hist. Col.-should doubtless be Peuvret-Jean Baptiste Louis Peuvret, Sieur de Mesnu, Greffier et Secrétaire du Conseil Superieur de Quebec. (Edits, &c.)

65, line 27, read Naurantsouak [? Kennebec.]

line 33, The Wabash of those days was that of the present day, but extending also from its junction with the Ohio to its discharge into the Mississippi-the Ohio being thus an affluent of the Wabash.

67, line 27, after Corlac, read [Corlar-Schenectady].

69, 77, 80, read Cavelier.

77, line 28, The like.

lines 1, 16, read Verendrye.

80, line 9, The like.

86, line 55, after Fort, read [Fort St. Nicholas].

97, line 97, read Mante's.

101, line 31, read Mobile.

104, lines 2-4, for 1668, read 1686.

107, line 39, after Terragon, read

108, line 5, after left, read in the month of August last.

108, line 32, read league.

108, line 36. See note, page 350 post, as to first settlement of, at Nelson.

114, line 17, for Gobin Pachot, read

GOBIN.
PACHOT.

117, line 36, read five quarter-leagues.

118, line 3, read Post.

124, for Canute, read Canuse.

128, line 3, after southward, read ".The."

136g. Note t add to it [It appears that this cannot be however, as both lines originated only in 171920, whereas the preliminaries were in 1711-12].

136dd, lines 25-6, strike out the words " of the northern watershed."

145, line 13, after Britain read, as also the Straights of Hudson's Bay. [See original in Memorials of the Commissioners vol. i. pp. 680-1; and Tome II. p. 269.

line 33, after and, read those.

line 34, after and, for land, read lands.

159, line 15, after head, read as note, See General Haldimand's letter on this subject in Mr. Mills' new Report.

179, line 7, for R. S. read K. S.

183, line 34, read as note, An error; the French had one at the junction with the Assiniboine, and another-du Bois-half way up the river.

205, line 28, for trade, read Limits.

209, lines 41-2, read as note, Declared subsequently by treaty, 1842, to be a point further to the southwest (see p. 21 ante).

The former seems most 227, at foot of note, after west, read but see the decision by same C. J. in McLellan's case, p. 229, from which it may be inferred that the westerly boundary was held to be a line due north from or from the N. W. angle of Lake of the Woods. Turtle Lake, probable. 228, line 43, after Canada, read as note, This seems to import that the line decided to be the true one, was part of the meridian of Turtle Lake, the source of the Mississippi. 236, line 16, after River, read as note, Radisson and Des Grosselliers had in 1667, been on the Red and Assiniboine Rivers and through that Western Country; and no doubt many other Canauthority whatsoever has been found for the existence of or himself appears to be doubtful on the

the fur trade in that region.