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CARTOGRAPHY OF NEW BRUNSWICK 



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Qtiadus, Hondins, Blaeu, Sansov], Visscher. Atlases of Sea Charts were 

 made by Jacobcz, Dudley, Oolom, Doncker, Van Loon, fioos, de Witt, 

 laillot, '^ The English Pilot." 



In this period, as in others, we find certain aborrent types, of which 

 two are of particular importance. In 1647 appeared the curious chart 

 of Dudley, with its many repetitions of names all turned into Italian. 

 It follows, however, Champlain, with some additions from his narratives ; 

 it makes a sea-passage from the St. Croix through to the St. Lawrence, 

 in which it follows the Hakluyt-Molineaux map of 1600, and it is followed 

 by the majj of 1702 in the English Pilot, already referred to. Still more 

 remarkable is the map of Nicolas Visscher (Pig. 21), of uncertain date, 

 but of about 1G70. On this there are curious repetitions and other 

 remarkable features. The Passamaquoddy Eegion is given with greater 

 fulness on Homann's Nova Anglia. (Fig 22.) 

 The entire topography of Visscher 

 is taken with a fidelity altogether rare 

 in these early maps directly from De 

 Laet, except for new errors about 

 Grand Manan, and his names, also» 

 are adopted exactly as far as they 

 go, but, in addition, many new 

 ones appear, which are the same as 

 those on the p]nglish Pilot map, 

 already referred to. One might at 

 tirst suppose that these names on the 

 latter were taken from this map of 

 Visscher, but that is hardly possible, 

 for the topography which accom- 

 panies them is entirely different in 

 the two cases. By comparing Visscher with De Laet (Figs. 17 and 21) 

 it will be seen that Visscher follows the topography of De Laet very 

 exactly, and adds these curious names to it, while the English Pilot map 

 has no trace of the De Laet topography, and hence could not have been 

 copied from Visscher. Moreover, the entire series of names on the two 

 maps on the north shore is quite distinct, again showing that one has 

 not influenced the other, but both have taken their information from 

 other sources. The Visscher names on the North Shore, GrandmiraMlcha, 

 P. de Monte, Quasco, Tequsta, Dun de Sable are new and do not reappear, 

 except that the word Quasco is on a map of 1722, by Edward Wells ; 

 otherwise Visscher's map has had no influence, and it remains another 

 cartographical puzzle. 



Another aberrant map of much importance is that of Xicolas Denys, 

 of 1672. This was made from his personal observations, and is largely 

 independent in details of topography and in nomenclature from all 





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Fig. 22.— HOMANX, 1670 (?). 

 From original ; x 5. 



