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The same extension is given to Acadia in a document of 1652 (given by 
Murdoch, I., 119). Acadia therefore at this time was held officially by 
the French to include the entire country to the Penobscot and not simply 
the peninsula. 
We may here mention that subdivision of the country under the 
government of Nicolas Denys. Originally made lieutenant-general of 
the Gulf of St. Lawrence coast in 1636, he was confirmed in this position 
in 1654, in a patent in which his government is thus described :— 
nous .. . . avons . . . . confirmé & confirmons de nouveau 
Gouverneur & notre Lieutenant général . . . . en tout le pays, 
territoire, côtes & confins de la grande baie de Saint-Laurent, à commencer 
du cap de canseau jusqu’au cap de Rosiers, isles de terre neuve, isles du 
Cap-Breton, de Saint-Jean, & autres isles adjacentes. 
(Memorials of the English and French Commissaries, 720.) 
TRANSLATION. 
We have confirmed, and we do confirm anew [Nicolas Denys] as Gov- 
ernor and Lieutenant general in all the land, territory, coasts and bounds of 
the great Bay of St. Lawrence, to commence from Cape Canso, even to Cape 
Rosiers, Newfoundland, Cape Breton, Saint John and other islands adjacent. 
It will be noted that while the extent of his government is clearly 
given along the coast, no mention is made of its depth inland, nor does 
any document known to me throw any light upon this question, although 
Delisle’s map of 1703 (map No. 8) gives limits to Gaspesie, which per- 
haps was considered equivalent to Denys’ government. This grant was 
confirmed again in 1667, and was held by Denys until considerably after 
that date. It is not mentioned as lying in Acadia, a point of which the 
French commissioners in the later boundary disputes made much in sup- 
port of their contention that Acadia was confined of old to a part of the 
peninsula. 
The cession of the places in Acadia to France would appear to have 
implied the cession of Acadia, and this was the view naturally taken by 
the French. Such was not, however, the attitude of King Charles, who, 
whether in all honesty, as Slafter appears to believe, or with duplicity 
and double dealing, as Patterson holds, maintained that his surrender 
of the places in Acadia by no means implied the cession of the country. 
Thus, two or three months after the treaty of St. Germain, he wrote the 
Scottish Privy Council, “ we have ever expressed that we have no inten- 
tion to quyt our right or title to anie of these boundis” [i.e., Nova 
Scotia], and directs that Alexander is “to goe on in the said work” 
[colonizing Nova Scotia], and further “ we have never meaned to relin- 
quish our title to any part of these countreyis,” and he promises to pro- 
