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SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON ON THE 



I bave now gone over all the list of maps given by Harrisse in bis work on tbe Cabots 

 and some others besides, and Prince Edward island has not yet emerged from its hiding 

 place in tbe lap of Nova Scotia ; but I have continually found the island of St. John — 

 always in the Atlantic, and always near tbe eastern cape of Cape Breton — the jmma vista of 

 John Cabot. It will, however, be well to follow down tbe chain of maps until our island 

 province is born into that independent position which, in our days, it so greatly values; and, 

 upon the Jomard map of about the same date, the gulf will be found fairly drawn, but with- 



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1. Baye des Chasteaux. 



2. Cap de Raso. 



3. Cape Breton. 



4. I. de St. John. 

 .5. Rio Grand. 

 6. R. de Isles. 



Jomard, A.D. 155- 



Bellero, A.D. 1554. 



out islands, while the island of St. John is marked in the Atlantic in its accustomed place 

 The same remark is applicable to tbe Bellero map of 1554. Ruscelli's 

 map of 1561 seems to be largely drawn from imagination ; but even 

 that gives the cape with its island ; but he calls the island Breston. 

 Zaltieri's map, 1566, does the same; as also Des Liens' map of the 

 same year, and that of Ortelius in 1570. The map of Gerard Mer- 

 cator, dated 1569, is tbe first in our series of maps to give its present 

 name to tbe gulf, which appears as Sinus S. Laurentii. Tbe name which Cartier gave to a 

 bay on the north shore was thenceforth (no one knows how) extended over tbe whole gulf"' 

 The island in the centre reappears without a name; but now we meet a cape St. John '*' on 

 the mainland, Avhere Prince Edward island is to be born, and the name appears now first 



inside tbe gulf, at some point on tbe north 

 coast of tbe still adherent Prince Edward 

 island. Two maps by Vaz Dourado 

 (Kunstmann, plates 10 and 11), dated 

 between 1573-80, show the coast on a 

 large scale. Both of them mark the 

 island of St. -John near the point of Cape 



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Cabo Bretao 



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Vaz Uourado, A.D. 1.573. 



Breton, and upon one we meet the name haUi des fiimos applied to the line of coast called 



