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island’s history are contained in the Relations of the Jesuit Mission- 
aries, which have recently been collected and republished in original 
and translation in seventy-three volumes under the editorship of R. G. 
Thwaites, a monumental work of research and scholarship. The cita- 
tions in this paper are from that edition. The documents bearing 
upon the later history of the island are mostly still in Ms. in the 
voluminous records of the Boundary Commission, which will be found 
described later in this paper. 
Passing next to books of history, we note that all works treating 
the ‘history of Canada, or this part of America, necessarily make some 
mention of the history of the island. Such references are well-nigh 
innumerable, but not always accurate, and need not be: considered 
further here. Works of more limited range, those relating to Maine 
and to the Acadian Provinces naturally give more detailed accounts, 
and such narratives are to be found in Haliburton’s Nova Scotia 
(1829), Murdoch’s Nova Scotia (1865), Hannay’s Acadia (1879), Wes- 
ton’s Maine (1834), Williamson’s Maine (1839), Willis’s Early Collec- 
tions of Voyages to America, in the New England Historical and 
Genealogical Register, XV., 1861, 212-213, Parkman’s Pioneers of 
France in the New World (1865), Brown’s Coasting Voyages in the 
Gulf of Maine, (Collections of the Maine Historical Society, VII, 
1873, 243), and there is a treatment of it, with reproductions of the 
maps, in the section on Acadia in Vol IV. of Winsor’s “Narrative 
and Critical History of America,” (1884). Dionne’s Samuel Champlain 
(1891) treats it fully, but with no new information., It is synoptically, 
but not very accurately considered in a local work, Knowlton’s “Annals 
of Calais, Maine and St. Stephen, New Brunswick,” 1875; it is con- 
sidered briefly, with the cut of the settlement by Kilby in his Eastport 
and Passamaquoddy (1888); is discussed very fully and with a transla- 
tion of Champlain’s narrative and reproduction of his map of the 
settlement in Nos. XXIII— XXVI. of the very valuable series of 
historical articles, edited by James Vroom, in the “St. Croix Courier,” 
published at St. Stephen, in 1892-1895. More recently it has been 
briefly treated, with a cut of the settlement-map, by Hay in his “ Can- 
adian History Readings” (1900). The interesting questions as to the 
identity of the island, its names, etc., have received some attention 
from several writers, and there are notes on the subject in Holmes’ 
“ Annals,” I., 149 (I., 122 of 2nd Edition), in Williamson’s History of 
Maine (I, 88, and II., 578), in Laverdiére’s, and in Otis-Slafter’s 
editions of Champlain, in Winsor’s “America,” IV., 137, and in 
Thwaites’ Jesuit Relations, II., 291. From the point of view of the 
identification of the site of the settlement, etc., I have treated the 
subject, with reproductions of three maps, in my “Historic Sites in 
