[aaxoxc] DOCHET (ST. CROIX) ISLAND 149 
appears also on Lescarbot’s earlier map of 1609, but unnamed (Fig. 7). 
Subsequent maps of the region become much distorted, and the island 
does not appear, at least recognizably, upon any other map down to 
1772, when it appears with the name Bone Island on Wright’s great 
survey map, a portion of which is here reproduced from the MS. in 
the Public Record Office in London (Fig. 10). It appears with its 
Indian name on Carleton’s Map of Maine of 1802, though with its 
name and that of Little Dochet transposed. From 1772 down to the 
present it appears upon all maps of large scale, sometimes named and 
sometimes not, reaching its most detailed representation upon the 
United States Coast Survey Chart of 1895 (No. 300), of which a por- 
tion is here reproduced (Fig. 4), and this is the largest-scale published 
map of the island, aside, of course, from the special maps earlier 
mentioned. 
LITERATURE. 
The history of Dochet Island has been of such interest, and, in 
connection with the boundary disputes, of such importance as to give 
rise to a considerable literature. This may be divided into five 
classes: — (1) original historical narratives and other documents, 
(2) references in general historical works, (3) scientific literature, 
(4) popular accounts in newspapers and other fleeting sources, and 
(5) pure literature, romance, and poetry. 
First, we consider the original historical publications. Of these, 
by far the most important is “ Les Voyages dv Sievr de Champlain,” 
written by Samuel de Champlain, companion of de Monts in 1604, 
and published as a quarto at Paris in 1613. This work is now very 
rare and costly, but is accessible in the edition of Champlain’s writings 
published at Quebec in 1870, under the editorship of Abbé Laverdière, 
a work whose faithful reproduction of the original text (marred only 
by the crudeness of reproduction of some of the illustrations), and 
scholarly annotations make it one of the monuments of Canadian 
scholarship. From this the text in the following pages is taken. 
There is also an edition of Champlain’s works published in 1632, 
reprinted in a valueless edition at Paris in 1832, and with fidelity in 
the Quebec edition of 1870, which contains an abbreviated account 
of the island and its discovery, but omits the account of the settle- 
ment. Champlain’s “ Voyages” of 1613 has been translated into 


“Voyages”’ of 1613, and the 1632 Champlain is from the 1632 edition of his 
works. I have a copy of a 1607 or 1608 map of the St. Croix by Champlain 
(given me by Mr. Henry Harrisse), but it does not show the island. 

