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Bit<»8 for settleiiK'iit, and a gucnl sitnatiim is likely to be occupied by many 

 K'ttU'inents in succession. Tliat this site was «m what we now call Shippenan 

 is not tiie lea.st objection, since, until after 17(KI, both islands were called 

 Miscou, one the Cirande Isle de Miscou, the other Petite Isle de Miscou. The 

 mission ha<l a branch at Nepisij^uit and was abandoned about 10(J2. 

 Denys' Settlement on Miscou Harbour. Denys, in Ins work of 1G72, toils 

 us with the j^n-atest clearness of his settlement on this harbour, on the south 



Map No. :5. Histokical Map of Bathukst Harbot:r. 



