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New Brunswick” in these Transactions, V., section II., 262-266. The 
part played by the island in the Boundary controversies is touched 
upon in several of the above works, and the subject is very fully sum- 
marized in my “ Monograph of the Evolution of the Boundaries of 
the Province of New Brunswick,” published in Vol. VII. of the Trans- 
actions of the Royal Society of Canada. 
Of scientific literature relating to the island there is extremely 
little, and it has been referred to in the preceding pages. The Geo- 
logical map of Charlotte County colours the island for the Silurian 
formation, though, as already pointed out, erroneously, but the accom- 
panying reports make no mention of it. Brief references to the 
molluses, ete., which occur there, in identification of those mentioned 
by Champlain and Lescarbot, are given by the present writer in the 
Bulletins of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick, (No. VI, 
page 17; No. VII., page 14, and No. VIII. pages 4-6, 16), while a 
reference to a southern star-fish occurring there occurs in the same 
Bulletin, No. IX., page 54. Other than these, I can find no refer- 
ences to the island in scientific literature. 
Of more fleeting literature in newspapers there has been an 
abundance. The island being one of the chief local attractions, is 
visited by many tourists and an occasional reporter every summer, 
and some of these on their return home publish their experiences in 
the newspapers. Such narratives are sometimes grotesquely inac- 
curate, and abound in characteristic exaggerations, and they have no 
permanent value. One of the first of such articles is said locally 
to have been published in the New York Sun some forty years ago, 
and is worth note because it reproduced the two maps of Champlain, 
and became a chief source of information locally about the island. 
An interesting reference to a visit to it occurs in a book for children, 
“ All Among the Lighthouses,” by Mary Crowinshield (Reel 1886), 
pages 339-343. 
Of pure literature the island has almost none. No romance 
has been woven from its story, though its subject offers tempting 
opportunity, and it has inspired but two short poems, one, an Ode 
to de Monts, written by Lescarbot on his voyage to the island in 1607, 
and contained in his “ Muses de la Nouvelle France,” : and A. W. H. 
Eaton’s St. Croix Isle in his “Acadian Legends and Lyrics.” Opinions 
will differ as to the merits of the latter, and its many inaccuracies mar 
its application to the place. In time to come, perchance, the imagina- 
1 Given in the Tross edition, Vol. III., page 45, of the ‘‘ Muses.” There is 
in this work also an ode to de Monts and his associates, and sonnets to Cham- 
plain, Poutrincourt, and Champdoré. 
