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Thus the period closed, with our entire sea-coasts laid down, though 

 from hasty traverses, not true surveys, and with the interior hardly at all 

 represented. 



TYPE No. 4.— THK DBLISLE TYPE. 

 Delisle, 1703. TO Bellin, 1744. 



The beginning of the representation of the interior, based iqyon maps 

 made by the Jesuit and Recollect missionaries, and by the Intendant De- 

 Meulles, after a journey of exploration ; the entire courses of all the prin- 

 cipal rivers, except the St. Croix, shown, but with much error ; no im- 

 provement in the coasts at first, but later a survey by Blackmore, improved 

 somewhat by Southack, gave a better typ)e for the Bay of Fundy. Began 

 with Belisle's map of 1703, based on Franquelin of 1686, and ended with 

 the appearance of Sellings map of TÏJfIf. 



The preceding period had shown practical!}- nothing of the interior 

 of the province ; in this, without much improvement on the coasts, 

 the interior begins to differentiate. In 1703 appeared Delisle's map 

 (Fig. 24), which, for the tirst time, showed with some approach to 

 correctness the courses of our larger rivers. Guillaume Delisle (1675- 

 ]72G) was an otïicial map-maker of France, and, of course, had access to 

 the best sources of information. What these sources were, we must now 

 examine. 



From about 1G13 both Jesuit and Recollect missionaries were pm-suing 

 their noble work among the Indians of New Brunswick, and from refer- 

 ences in the "Relations" and elsewhere there is no doubt they made maps 

 of the places visited by them, which they sent home to France \ and to 

 some extent these influenced the maps of the preceding period, such as 

 those of Creuxius and Coronelli. But the earliest of these missionary 

 maps of any importance that I know of, is the fine one of 1685. by 

 Emmanuel Jumeau, Recollect (Fig. 25), which establishes a new nomen- 

 clature for the Gulf of St. Lawrence coast, and one which largely per- 

 sists. Its topography, based on personal observation, is far more accurate 

 than in any of its predecessors. I have tried to give a full analysis of 

 these names, an-d, indeed, of all others occurring upon our maj^s, in my 

 " Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of New Brunswick," where they 

 may be found discussed imder their modern equivalents. Some of the 

 names on this map seem to be miswritten, as a result of many coj^yings ; 

 thus, no doubt, on the original pakmouet is written pokmouch ; eraiudi, is 



1 Le Père Aubéri left a map of Acadie in 1720. Dionne, Le Can. Français, II , 



