Crossword-Solution: SERTS 5 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

This Champlain named _Monts Déserts_, which we have anglicized into Mount Desert, [35] an appellation which has survived the vicissitudes of two hundred and seventy-five years, and now that the island, with its salubrious air and cool shades, its bold and picturesque scenery, is attracting thousands from the great cities during the heats of summer, the name is likely to abide far down into a distant and indefinite future.

Champlain had, by his own explorations and by consulting the Indians, obtained a very full and accurate knowledge of this island at his first visit, on the 5th of September, 1604, when he named it _Monts-déserts_, which we preserve in the English form, MOUNT DESERT.

The Isle des Monts Déserts forms one of the extremities of the mouth, on the east; the other is low land, called by the savages Bedabedec, [95] to the west of the former, the two being distant from each other nine or ten leagues.

Thence we went to the Island of Monts Déserts, at the entrance of the river Norumbegue, as I have before stated, and sailed five or six leagues among many islands.

Car ne fut-ce pas d'ici que jaillirent ces influences qui changčrent en riches habitations de nations puissantes, ces vastes déserts inconnus? Ne fut-ce pas de Québec que les paroles de foi, les impérissables richesses de la science et de la civilisation se répandirent ŕ travers un nouveau continent? C'est d'ici que les grandes rivičres furent découvertes, et que les flots, devenant les grandes voies du commerce, furent forcés de partager le travail de l'homme.