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in the form Acadye, a spelling which shows that it could not L-=ve been 
taken directly from older maps, but must have been added in its ver- 
nacular form. The next map to use the name is that of DeLaet of 
1630, which apples it to the peninsula. [rom this time on numerous 
maps use the name, some of taem apparently applying it to the entire 
peninsula, such as Creuxius, of'1669, Sanson, 1656 and later ; Visscher 
of 1670 or thereabouts; Franquelin of 1686; Coronelli of 1689, and 
others, while some apply the name only to the southern part of the 
coast of the peninsula, such as Boisseau of 1643, Franquelin of 
1707 and others. The very ‘earliest map I have been able to find which 
extends the name to the mainland is the French map of 1610-1650 in 
Winsor’s America, IV. 202, and this occurs upon several later maps 
given by Winsor, and also upon Duval of 1677 and others. Summing 
up the testimony of the maps therefore, they, like the documents, 
show that there was no common agreement as to the bounds of Acadia 
(of course for the very good reason that no definite limits had ever 
been agreed upon for it), but that upon the whole, in the earlier part 
of the seventeenth century, there was a tendency to confine the name 
Acadia to the peninsula and even to its southern part. In contending 
therefore, that the ancient limits of Acadia confined it to the southern 
part of the peninsula, the French commissioners in 1751-1754 were 
upon fairly good ground, though where they were wrong was in main- 
taining that these were the ancient limits meant by the treaty of 1713. 
The transfer of the name Acadia to the mainland after 1632 is plain 
enough, for after the Treaty of St. Germain in 1632 it became to the 
interest of the French to extend the name as widely as possible, and 
actually it was extended in common usage to the entire country east 
of the Penobscot, a usage which soon became reflected in the maps. 
This comes out clearly enough in Delisle, of 1700 and 1703 and upon 
other maps cited by the English commissioners. After 1713 it became 
to the interest of the French to confine the name to the peninsula, 
and this again is reflected in French maps of that date such as those 
of D’Anville, Bellin, Robert and others. 
We may here trace also the cartographical history of the name 
Nova Scotia. Incidentally we may notice the causes which determined 
the survival of the Latin instead of the English form of the name, a 
\ery happy circumstance, for it must be admitted that from all points of 
view Nova Scotia fulfils the requirements of a good place name far better 
than New Scotland would have done. The first appearance of the name 
on a map is upon Alexander’s own map of 1624 (Map No. 7), where 
of course it appears as New Scotland. Indeed this was the form Alex- 



1 Reproduced in “ Jesuit Relations,’ XXIII., 234. 
