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Dauphin, or Henry II. Map, A.D. 1.516. 



bosom, as it were, of the long, straggling main island, and the Bird rocks and Brion island 

 to the northeast. This is the precise arrangement on the Dauphin map. First, Isle aux 

 Margaulx, then Isle Brion, then the long, straggling main island, and an island in the centre 

 which may well be Entrv island. Further, at the southwest end, is Alezay, which Pope 

 and Ganong have identified as Deadman's island. It is evident, therefore, that Jaccpies 

 Cartier did not know of Prince Edward island as an island, but thought the point he 

 touched a headland of the main shore. This group of connected islands is fifty-six miles 

 long; it was discovered in 1534, and the compiler ot the map of 1.544, finding that it was 

 being inserted in the new maps, and that it was next to the prima vista of Cabot, without 

 any authority whatever and ignorant of the distance and physical facts, assumed that it was 

 the island of St. John of the legend Xo. 8 of the map. 



In connection with the Dauphin map, a mappemonde described by Ilarrisse in the 

 British Museum, by the same Deceliers,"" is worthy of careful consideration. It purports to 

 embody the results of the voyages of Cartier and Roberval, and this island, whit-h Ilarrisse 

 takes to be Prince Edward island, is named isle des arènes — isle of sands. ''^ No one who ever 

 saw the "garden of the gulf " would call it " isle of sands," for the forest comes down to 

 the beaches even of the northern coast. 



The maps of Gastaldi, 1550 — of Nicolay, 1553,'and one in Eamusio of 1556, do not show 

 the gulf The point of Cape Breton, with its attendant island, is, however, given. Some- 

 times, on the maps of this period, the island is called Breton, as well as the cape. In an 

 atlas by Guillaume le Testu, dated 1555, described by Harrisse,"' the island inside the gulf 

 is called He Gazeas, which he says is a corruption of Alezay, while he yet erroneously 

 supposes it to be Prince Edward island. The map of Diego Ilomem, 1558, shows the 

 island in the gulf as ille de Snbloés (isle of sands — Sable island), but the position as well as 

 the name precludes the supposition that it is Prince Edward island. 



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