The wild strawberries of North America were larger than those of Europe.

Champlain does not himself allude to gooseberries (unless they are his _groseilles vertes_), but later travellers do.
Three or more kinds of gooseberry grow wild in Canada, but they are different from the European species.

The blueberry so often Mentioned by Champlain (bluets or blues) was _Vaccinium canadense_.] Champlain observed amongst them for the first time the far-famed Amerindian snowshoes, which he compares very aptly for shape to a racquet used in tennis.
Champlain next visited the site of Stadacona, but there was no longer any settlement of Europeans at that place, nor were the native Amerindians the descendants of the Hurons that had received Jacques Cartier.

For the first time the name Quebec (pronounced Kebek) is applied to this point where the great River St.Lawrence narrows before dividing to encircle the Isle of Orleans.

In fact, Quebec meant in the Algonkin speech a place where a river narrows; for a tribe of the great Algonkin family, _the_ Algonkins, allied to the tribes of Maine and New Brunswick, had replaced the Hurons as the native inhabitants of this region.
On the shore of Quebec he noticed "diamonds" in some slate rocks--no doubt quartz crystals.