200 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 
TRANSLATION. 
the ancient Acadia commences at the extremity of the Bay Fran- 
coise (Bay of Fundy) from Cap de Sainte-Marie or Cape Fourchu; that it 
extends along the coasts and ends at Cape Canso. 
Nothing is here said about the northern boundary of this Acadia, 
but presumably the French commissioners meant it to be formed by a 
line drawn from Cape St. Mary to Cape Canso, and in a later memorial 
they suggest such a line following the central watershed. 
Although it would appear that the burden of proof in the case rested 
upon the French commissioners, it was the English commissioners who 
first presented a full memorial setting forth their claims. This is dated 
January 11, 1751, and occupies some 35 quarto pages of the memorials. 
Their object is very clearly stated in the opening paragraph :— 
We the underwritten Commissaries of the King of Great Britain having, 
in our Memorial of the 21st of September last, mark’d out the Extent and 
ancient Limits of Nova Scotia, or Acadia, yielded to the Crown of Great 
Britain by the 12th. Article of the Treaty of Utrecht, shall now proceed to 
evince the Truth of those Limits, and demonstrate His Majesty’s just Title 
to all the Lands, Continents, Islands, Shores, Bays and Rivers comprehended 
within them. In doing this we shall argue upon no Facts which are not 
authentick, and no Evidence which is not conclusive; and we are so for- 
tunate as to be able to support every Part of this Claim, not only from sev- 
eral Declarations and Acts of State on the Part of the Crown of France, but 
also from the uniform Possession of that Crown for many Years, both before 
and after the Treaty of Breda, which Crown, as often as it claim’d and pos- 
sess’d Acadia, claim’d and possess’d it in that Extent, and with the same 
limits as we now contend for. (Page 13.) 
The Commisioners proceed first to prove that the name Acadia pro- 
perly belongs to the entire country claimed by them. For this they cite 
many documents, printed in full in their volume of memorials. These 
include (1) Charnisay’s commission of 1647 from the King of France, 
(2) LaTour’s commission of 1651, (3) a letter of the Count d’Estrades 
written in 1662, (4) Cromwell’s warrant of 1656 to Leverett to give up 
places in Acadia to Temple, (5) a letter of the Count d’Estrades of 
1665, (6) the instrument of surrender of Acadia to France in 1667, (7) 
the King of England’s disclaimer in 1668 of Temple’s contention that 
Acadia was but a part of the peninsula (8) various French documents 
showing that France between 1685 and 1710 applied the name Acadia 
to the mainland as far as the Kennebec or at least the St. George’s 
river, (9) documents relating to the preliminaries to the Treaty of 
Utrecht, in which both England and France recognized Acadia as includ- 
ing all the mainland. The commissioners conclude that it results from 
this evidence that the French prior to and in the preliminaries of the 
