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named one of the islands he found in the Strait of Belle Isle, St. Kathe- 

 rine. That was on the 27th of May ; but April 30 is the day of St. 

 Katherine of Siena and November 25 that of St. Katherine of Alexandria. 

 Neither day will suit the liturgical theoiy, and the conclusion is irre- 

 sistible that Cartier was thinking of his wife Katherine des Granges, who 

 was probably named after the earlier saint and martyr of Alexandria, as 

 St. Katherine of Siena Avas not canonized until 1401. She had not in the 

 north the veneration she had in Italy. 



Judge ProM'se, in reviewing my monograph on the Cabots, thinks 

 that this liturgical test upsets my theory that Cabot sailed, as shown by 

 La Cosa's map, from wesr to east along the coast of Newfoundland. He 

 says " the author ignores the fact that the old pilots in naming the coast 

 " followed the calendar. The position of Cape St. Jorge (April 23) and 

 " C. St. Lucia (December 1.3), west of St. Nicholas (December 6) show 

 " conclusively that the navigator whose voyage La Cosa's map records 

 " sailed from east to west." 



I venture to think that the very dates Judge Prowse quotes explode 

 conclusively the whole liturgical theory ; for it is very certain that before 

 the year 1500 neither on December 6, or December 13, in the depth of 

 winter could there have been any vessels on that coast, nor would any 

 vessel be likely to have been there as early in the spring as April 23 ; and,^ 

 again, any navigator along the coast would have made a quicker passage 

 between Cape St. .lorge and Cape St. Lucia than from April 23 to 

 December 18, whichever way he sailed. 



APPENDIX G. 



The following table is taken from a statement prepared by Professor 

 Henry Youle Hind, M.A., and laid before the Commission on the Fishery 

 Clauses of the Treaty of Washington, which met at Halifax in 1877. 



Table showing thk approximate mean Date of Arrival of Cod in North- 

 eastern Newfounland, Southern and Northern Labrador. 



Lat. 



50 



49-30 

 51 

 51-30 



Locality. 



Newfoundland. 



47 -30 Conception Bay . 

 48-20 Bonavista Bay . . 

 48 -30 Notre Dame Bay 



Cape St. John to Par. Point 



White Bay 



Cape Rouge Harbour • 



Cape Bauld to Cape Onion 



Over four degrees of latitude. 



Mean Date of 

 Arrival. 



1st .June. 



10th " 



20th " 



20th " 



10th " 



10th ^' 



20th " 



