ON CAPE BRETON. 3 IS 



the same. The most valuable feature of this chapter— for the references to Cape Breton and the two sieges are 

 necessarily meagre— are the notes by the editor, Dr. Winsor, on the authorities relatin.i; to Louisbourg, and the 

 island generally. It is the only bibliography that has yet appeared on the subject of the island from 1 745-58. The 

 strong feature of these notes is necessarily the complete references to the literature on the taking of Louisbourg 

 in 1745, the collection of books and documents in Harvard University, and other institutions in New England 

 being very complete. 



"The History of New Hampshire" by Jeremy Belknap (Philadelphia and Boston, 1784-1702). It contains a 

 very readable and accurate account of the siege of 1745, which is particularly valuable since the author had 

 superior opportunities for obtaining direct information from the participants in the famous exploit. He was the 

 ablest historian New England produced in early times, and had — to quote the words of William Cullen Bryant — 

 " the high merit of being the first to make American history attractive." See an article on bis merits as an his- 

 torian in the ' Atlantic Monthly,' for May, 1S91. 



" Accurate Journal and account of the proceedings of the New England land forces, during tlio late expedition 

 against the French settlements on Cape Breton to the time of the surrender of Louisbourg." (Exon, 1746). The 

 manuscript of this work, according to the " Nar. and Crit. Hist.," (v. 437) was sent to England by Pei)perrell to one 

 of his friends, and as printed was attested by Pepperrell, Waldo, Gridley and others. According to the same 

 authority it appeared as "An accurate and authentic account of the taking of Cape Breton in 1745," London, 

 175S; and in the ' American Magazine,' 1746; and witli "some curious verbal dilTerences," as an appendix to a 

 letter from W. Shirley, Esqr., to the Duke of Newcastle, with a " Journal of the Siege of Louisbourg," (London, 

 3716). It was reprinted twice in Boston in 1746 on the authority of the legislature. The full title of the copy in 

 the parliamentary library at Ottawa is this : " A letter from AV. Shirley, Governor of Massachusetts Bay to His 

 Lordsliip the Duke of Newcastle, with a 'Journal of the Siege of Louisbourg' and other operations of the forces 

 during the expedition against the French settlements of Cape Breton, drawn up at the desire of the Council and 

 House of Representatives of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and approved and attested by Sir W. Pepperrell 

 and other principal officers who commanded in the siege the expedition." (London 1746.) A copy of the same 

 ed. is also in the present author's po.s.session. 



" Journal of the late siege by the troops of North America against the French of Cape Breton," by Colonel 

 James Gibson, who took part in the siege. London, 1745. It contains a plan of the siege, reproduced in a reduced 

 form in the " Nar. and Crit. Hist, of Am.," v. 4.".7. It also appeared in Boston in 1847, as "edited by Lorenzo D. 

 Johnson, nnder misleading title of ' A Boston Merchant of 1745.' " 



" A particular account of the taking of Cape Breton by Admiral Warren, and Sir William Pepperell, with a 

 description of the place and the articles of capitulation. By Philip Durell, Ksqr., Captain of His Majesty's ship 

 Superhc. To which is added a letter from an officer of Marines." (London, 1745. ) 



" The importance and advantage of Cape Breton considered in a letter to a member of parliament from an 

 inhabitant of New England." (London, 1746.) 



" Two letters containing some further advantages and improvements that may seem necessary to be made on 

 the taking and keeping of Cape Breton." (London, 1746.) 



" The importance and advantage of Capo Breton, truly stated and impartially considered, with proper maps," 

 (London 1746.) The authorship has been ascribed to AVilliam Bollan, a friend of Shirley, and is also believed to 

 have been inspired by W. Vaughan, who, it says, "had the honour of reviving, at least, if not having been the 

 original mover or projector " of the expedition. The maps are Bellin's. 



"The great importance of Cape Breton demonstrated and exemplified by extracts from the best writers, 

 French and English." (London, 1746). It reproduces Bellin's map and plan from Charlevoix. 



" An accurate description of Cape Breton, Situation, Soil, Ports, Ac, its importance to France, but of bow much 

 greater it might have been to England, with an account of the taking of the city by the New England forces under 

 General Pepperrell in 1745." (Loudon, 1755). 



" Memoir of the principal transactions of the last war between the English and the French in North America, 

 from 1744 to the conclusion of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, containing in particular an accoimt of the importance 

 of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton to both nations." (London and Boston, 175S). 



Dr. William Douglass, a Scotch physician of Boston, published in 1747, in quarterly numbers, " A Summary, 

 historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements 

 in North America ; with some transient accounts of the bordering French and Spanish settlements." The numbers 

 of this summary were subsequently collected in two volumes, published at Boston in 174!i and 1751, and in London 

 in 1755 and 1760. He was a man of strong prejudice, and had a violent antipathy to Shirley (See " Nar. .and Crit. 

 Hist, of Am.," v. 158, 159). He gives an account of the Louisbourg expexlition, which he calls " this infinitely rash 

 New England exjiedition, though beyond .all military or human probability successful." Douglass's portraiture of 

 Admiral Knowles, the irascible governor of Louisbourg, whose conduct in the Boston impressment riots made him 



