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CARTOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK 



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The earliest known dated map showing the voyages of Cartier is 

 Nicolas Desliens's, of Dieppe, 1541, first published by H arrisse in his •' John 

 and Sebastian Cabot." In that work it is upon so small a scale, however, 

 as to be almost illegible, and I have to thank M. Harrissc for a larger 

 draft of it. Herr Dr. Ruge, of Dresden, has had the very great kindness 

 to send me a tracing of it from which the figure (Fig. it) is made. Its 

 priority is, however, its chief virtue, for there are later maps \vhich 

 show Cartier's influence very much better, and even the priority is more 







Fig. 7.— ROTZ, (1535) 1542. 

 From Frowse ; full size. 



seeming than real, for there are others which belong earlier, even 

 though dated later. I shall return later to the Desliens map, but must 

 consider othei's first. 



Though Cartier's first voyage was cartographically the most im- 

 portant of his three, there were some points which the first left obscure 

 to him, which he later cleared up. Thus, on his first voyage, thinking- 

 he was crossing the entrance to a great bay, not the mouth of a great 

 river, he crossed from Gaspé directly to Anticosti, missing the southern 

 entrance to the St. Lawrence.^ On his second voyage he came throuo-h 

 this passage. On the first voyage he turned back to return to France 

 from the strait north of Anticosti, entering it only far enough to see the 

 great river broadening out at the west of the island. On the first voyage 

 he had not explored east and south of the Magdalenes. A map, therefore, 

 showing his first and not his second voyage would show Anticosti as a 

 part of the mainland of Gaspé, would mark the St. Lawrence for a short 

 ' Fully di.scussed in these Transactions, V., ii., 1:3.5 ; VII., ii., 21. 

 Sec. II., 1897. 19. 



