McKenzie, James. Some Account of the King's Posts, the Labrador Coast, and the Island of Anticosti by an Indian Trader Residing there Several Years with a Description of the Natives and the Journal of a trip through those Countries in 1808 by the Same Person. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0017
and groan under the load of snow which overwhelms them[.] And the latter are actually torn up by the roots or broke in splinters by the Westerly Winds which rush from the Sagunay and Caverns of the Rocks with a violence that threatens to sweep every thing before it.
There are six field Pieces at Tadousac by the respectable appearance of which as well as by the Indians shewing themselves in red dresses the Clerk of the Post, Mr Martin, in 1775 saved it from the Depredation of the American Privateers which in the same year had plundered and destroyed the most of the rest of the Posts for want of the like advantages and stratagems.
The Etymology of the word Tadousac I have not been able to trace. Some persons say it is a Corruption of Fete du Sac from the Bay before it bearing some resemblance to a Bag. The Indians call it Shate shi kush the entrance of the River.
The 2nd we continued our travels up the Sagunay and on the fourth we arrived at Chicoutimy reckoned thirty leagues from our last stage, Tadousac.
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