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Thévet is not a writer to be trusted implicitly, but he throws some 

 light upon the subject, and he says he had his information from Cartier 

 in person. He locates Cap Lorraine very precisely by saying that be- 

 tween it and Newfoundland is a pretty large island, about four leagues in 

 circumfei'ence. evidently referring to St. Paul's Island. This corroborates 

 the view that the old writers counted but one headland at the north. 



The bearing of all this upon the present question is that the map of 

 1544. in its distorteil shape of the land, shows two points to the north, the 

 most easterly of which is Cape Breton, not Cape North, and that the 

 eastern point is marked as the Prima Vista, so that the map of 1544 is 

 not antagonistic to the theory of the landftill at the easternmost point of 

 the Acadian land. 



Tracing from a photograph of the Original Map of 1544. 



The preceding cut is an exact tracing from one of twelve full-sized 

 photographs of the map of 1544, made at the instance of the late Dr. 

 Deane. It is in the Lenox library at New York. This may be con- 

 sidered for the present purpose as equivalent to the map itself. The out- 

 line is carefully traced, and all the lettering has been purposely omitted, 

 excepting the words prima tierra vista, as confusing the present issue ; 

 besides, a reference to the facsimile in the previous paper may be made, 

 or to the facsimiles in many other books. This tracing has been made 

 because it was found that the facsimiles had often been copied, one from 

 another, and little ditferences existed. It would unduly strain the argu- 

 ment to attach too much importance to the little projections at the ex- 

 treme northeast end of the land ; but, so far as they go, they indicate a 

 broken coast-line, with deep indentations, such as exist on the coast 

 between Cape Breton and Cape North. The map will be seen at once to 

 be very imperfect. The Bay of Fundy is not shown, and the island of 



