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[River uf tla- liiding placv] inijjlit be coiuirctcd w itli it. The original river 

 of this name seems to have been the (iniiid Dune, l)ut there is really 

 nothing to eonneet Denys with it. 

 B.— Bay du Via. Tr.Klition.s are given by Cooney a.s to the foundation of the 

 Bay du Vin settlements in 1G72 or 1073, but there is no historiciil evidence 

 whatever for such statements. But relics dug up, cellars, and traditions all 



Map No. 33. Historical Map of part of Miramichi. 



point to the existence of former French settlements at several points, though 

 we have no evidence at all as to the dates of their formation. A very large 

 settlement, with a chapel whose site is known, is said to have existed oppo- 

 site Bay du Vin Island. Probably most of them were not earlier than 1750, 

 about which time settlers began to leave the peninsula of Nova Scotia in 

 some numbers. 



probable explanation, and it would make K. Du Cache simply a French familiarization of the Indian 

 name remoyed to a new locality, and would upset my theory on page 223 of the Place Nomenclature. It 

 is Tcry puzzilng. 



