William S. Hunter Jr. suggested a different origin for the name in 1855: "The Word "Chaudiere" is the literal translation into French of the Indian ("sic") word "Kanajo" (The Kettle), and is . . . vastly suggestive, for the chasm into which the waters of the Ottawa (Ottawa River) discharge themselves is not unlike a kettle in shape, while the seething and frothing of the surface, in its continual whirl, assists in completing the resemblance," though Hunter himself provides no reference, historical or otherwise, to contradict de Champlain's account of the naming of the falls.