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the original map, that it was not Cape North, but Cape Breton, which is 

 indicated by the map of 1544. I am now in a position to show this 

 clearly by a magnified photograph (fig. 15) of that part of the map 

 taken from the negative procured by the Dominion archivist. I remarked 

 in the same paper upon the accuracy with which Mr. Harrisse, in his 

 first book, had read the meaning of the map and located the landfall at 

 Cape Percy, only sixteen miles from Cape Breton, " at a small cape at the 



Fig. 15.— Photographic Enlargement of outline of Cape Breton coast from 



Cabot's Map of 1544. 



" eastern extremity of the promontory." "" Mr. Harrisse's argument is 

 worth citing in full, if for nothing else than for its admirable statement 

 of the method of dealing with such documents — a method sadly departed 

 from by many contributors to the present controversy. 



" Le critique, cependant, n'a pas qualité pour corriger un monument 

 " graphique avec des hypothèses. Il doit prendre une carte telle qu'elle est, 

 " l'interroger le compas en main, noter les différences, relever les légendes 

 " et laisser les noms où il les trouve. Or, c'est bien sur la lisièi'c de l'isle 

 " du Cap Breton, à la pointe extrême, au nord-est, qu'on lit la phrase ; 



