Note 51 — SAMUEL CHAMPLAIN. (continued 2)

A difficult channel, called by the Spaniards the "Sound of Mexico," abounding in fish, especially Dorades.

"We pursued our route till we arrived at a place which the Spaniards call the Sound of Mexico, for in that place we often cast the sound.... During this time we took great diversion in fishing, particularly dorades, on which we made great cheer."—Gage's Voyage to Mexico in 1625, from French translation by the Sieur de Beaulieu, Hües O'Neil: 2 vols., Paris, 1676.