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him to conduct them thither; but the father would not consent to do so. This 
caused him to be in complete disgrace with Argal, and in great danger of his 
life. Notwithstanding this, Argal wandered about, up and down, and, by dint 
of searching all places thoroughly and comparing them with the maps which 
he had taken from us, he at last found the place himself. He took away a 
good pile of salt, which he found there, burned the settlement, and destroyed 
all traces of the name and claims of France, as he had been commanded to do. 
(Relations, IV., 36, 37.) 
But once more in this period does St. Croix Island make its 
appearance in the records of history. In 1632, Isaac de Razilly, fol- 
iowing nearly in the footsteps of de Monts as a colonizer of Acadia, 
received a great grant from the King of France, described in the 
following terms: — 
L’étendtie des terres & pays que ensuivant, à scavoir la rivière & baie 
Saincte-Croix, isles y contenues, & terres adjacentes d’une part & d’autre en 
la Nouvelle France, de l’étendtie de douze lieiies de larges, à prendre le point 
milieu en l’isle Saincte-Croix, ou le sieur de Mons à hiverné, & vingt lieües de 
profondeur depuis le port aux coquilles, qui est en l’une des isles de l’entrée 
de la riviére & baie Saincte-Croix, chacque lieiies de quatre mille toises de 
long. 
(“ Memorials of the English and French Commissaries,” Paris, 1755, page 707.) 
TRANSLATION. 
The extent of land and territory following, that is to say, the river and 
bay of Saint Croix, the islands contained therein, and the adjacent country 
on both sides in New France, in the extent of twelve leagues in breadth, with 
its middle point in St. Croix Island, where the Sieur de Monts wintered, and 
twenty leagues of depth from the Port Aux Coquilles [Head Harbour], which 
is in one of the islands at the entrance of the river and bay of St. Croix, each 
league of four thousand fathoms in length. 
It is easy enough to lay down this grant upon a modern map, 
and the curious reader may find it thus shown with other early 
French grants upon a map in an earlier volume of these Transac- 
tions. But de Razilly died before he could carry out his plan for 
colonization, and his grant lapsed. ‘There is not the slightest evi- 
denee that he ever even saw Isle St. Croix, much less attempted to 
settle upon it. 
Thus ended the history of Isle Sainte Croix in the Acadian period. 
Acadian settleis in small numbers lived in the vicinity towards the 
close of the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth century, but none 
of them are known to have occupied the island. Nor in any other 
way, in document, or on map, does it make any appearance during 
the remainder of the long Acadian period, which ended with the Treaty 
of Paris in 1763 and the cession of all Acadia to England. 
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1 Vol. V., 1899, section ii., page 313. 
