cosmography of Alfonse, in Bib.  Nat. of Paris, fol. 185.) Alfonse states that he ran down the coast as far as a bay which he did not penetrate, in latitude 42, between Norumbega and Florida, showing that Norumbega was considered as north of that parallel of latitude.  He particularly describes it in the manuscript just cited, which Hakluyt had before him, as the ruttier of Alfonse which he publishes is found in that manuscript.  It appears to have been written by Alfonse in 1544-5, which was shortly after his return from Canada with Roberval. the name of Norumbega is found in the discourse of the captain of Dieppe, written in 1539, and printed in third volume of Ramusio.  This writer distinctly states that the name was derived from the natives.  The description of the country and its inhabitants given by Alfonse, is important, as showing its extent, and alluding to the trade there in peltries thus early.  It is found in the cosmography in connection with the ruttier before mentioned (fol. 187-8), and is as follows:  “I say that the cape of St. Jehan, called Cape Breton and the cape of the Franciscaine, are northeast and southwest, and take a quarter of east and west and there is in the route one hundred and forty leagues.  And here makes a cape called the cape of Noroveregue.  This said cape is at forty-five degrees of the height of the arctic pole.  The said coast is all sandy land, low without any mountain.  And along this coast there are several islands of sand and coast very dangerous, with banks and rocks.  The people of this coast and of Cape Breton are bad people, powerful, great archers and live on fish and flesh.  They speak, as it were, the same language as those of Canada, and are a great nation.  And those of Cape Breton go and make war upon those of Newfoundland (Terre neufve), where they fish.  On no account would they save the life of a person when they capture him, if it he not a child or young girl, and are so cruel that if they find a man wearing a beard, they cut his limbs off and carry them to their wives and children, in order to be revenged in that matter.  And there is among them much peltry of all animals.  Beyond the cape of Noroveregue [Cape Sable] descends the river of the said Noroveregue which is about twenty-five leagues from the cape.  The said river is more than forty leagues broad at its mouth, and extends this width inward well thirty or forty leagues, and is all full of islands which enter ten or twelve leagues into the sea, and it is very dangerous with rocks and reefs.  The said river is at forty-two degrees of the height of the arctic pole.  Fifteen leagues within this river is a city which is called Norombergue, and there are in it good people and there is much peltry of all animals.  The people of the city are clothed with peltry, wearing mantles of martin.  I suspect the said river enters into the river of Ochelaga, for it is salt more than forty league inward, according to what is said by the people of the city.  The people use many words, which resemble Latin, and adore the sun; and are handsome and large men.  The land of Norobregue is tolerably high.  On the side on the west of the said city there are many rocks which run into the sea well fifteen leagues; and on the side towards the north there is a bay in which there is a little island which is very subject to tempest and cannot be inhabited.”