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W. F. GANONG ON THEl 



fort at the mouth of the Kiver St. John is on the east side. This map was made in Paris, 

 where its author presumably had access to the most reliable materials. This was in 1077 — 

 long before Villebou or any other French general had rebuilt either of the forts at St. 

 John. There are earlier editions of this map in the French Archives — of 1664, and even 

 earlier, but we do not know whether they show the fort." 



Map No. 2. — Our second map is most important. It is a portion of a manuscript 

 sketch contained in Vol. II, p. 11, of the " Documents collected in France," now preserved 



No. 2.— Massachusetts Archives, 1G80. 



in the Massachusetts Archives in the State House at Boston. It is really a map of New 

 England, but shows a portion of Acadia. It bears date of 1680 and shows every evidence 



' As this paper passess through tlie pre.ss, I have received from M. Henry Vignaud of Paris (to whom I owe 

 much otlier material of liistorical vahie) a letter in which he tells me that the two earlier editions of this map— of 

 165:'. and 1664— both have it on the »r.s( side. The only answer I can give to this unexpected fact is that the 

 maker of the 1677 edition saw good cause to change the fort from the west to the east side ; but what that evidence 

 was we can only conjecture. 



