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them. He made little or no attempt to reconcile new trnth and old 

 error, but records the new truth only. Not only does he sweep away at 

 one stroke from the Atlantic coast the elaborate but highly corrupted 

 nomenclature of Ribero, which had prevailed for nearly a century, but 

 even on the north shore he abandons all of the nomenclature of Cartier 

 except a single name, Baye de Chaleur, whose preservation to our day is 

 probably due to its retention by him ; and instead of copying from 

 older maps, which it is impossible to suppose he was not fjimiliar with, 



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Fig. 14.-CHAMPLAIN, 161 .c TYPE. 

 From Quebec reprint ; x /jj. 

 4. lUe fïravee. 9. Port aux coquilles. 



6. Baye de gennes. 10. Illes iunielles. 



7. nie perdue. 11. Cap St. Jean. 



8. Cap de raine. 14. Illes rangées. 



he writes the honest legend, ''■ Lauteur na point encore recougnu sette 

 coste." Indeed, I have tried in vain to trace in this map any influence of 

 the earlier ones so far as topography is concerned, and except for Baye 

 Chaleur, and I. S. lean, earlier referred to in this paper, it seems to be 

 all quite new in this region.^ In his Voyages, there is also a smaller 



' Possibly another case is found on the 16:32 map in the Cap d'Espoir (73 on the 

 map) which he says in the explanation is "proche de I'lsle Percée." This has now- 

 become Cape Despair. It is diflBcult to believe that it is any other than Cartier's 

 Cape d'Espoir or Cap Despérance, accidentally displaced by Champlain. 



