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In considering Bellin's 1744 map, we must recall the fact that he had 

 access to practically all existent materials, and these included many- 

 sketches now lost to us. On the North Shore it is easy to recognize his 

 debt to both Jumeau and Franquelin, for while most of the names and 

 the topography ai-e from the former, I. au pendu and Plauganic (cor- 

 rupted from Poyomkik) are from the latter. The head of the Bay of 

 Fundy is extremely confused, suggesting that it was laid down from the 

 reading of reports rather than from an}' sketch, for the inversion of the 

 names Memeramecou and Chidapouchi (Shepod)-) can hardly otherwise be 

 explained. The remainder of the Bay of Fundy is a degenerated copy 

 Irom Blackmore, with some names from Franquelin, and is especially poor 

 in the region of Passamaquoddy, where it shows no trace of Southack's 

 improvement over Blackmore. All of this is true, also, of his map of 

 Acadie, which, though it has some additional detail, is no more correct 

 than the other. Neither of them has any new names in this entire region,. 

 all occtirring either upon Franquelin or Blackmore. Passing to the 

 interior, we find most prominent in the older parts the influence of 

 Franquelin, though with an attempt at the correction of some of hi» 

 errors, and, in addition, a few new features. Here, for the first time. th(!^ 

 St. Croix is laid down and with some correctness, for it is made to head in 

 a lake near a branch of the Penobscot on the one hand, and with the lakes 

 emptied by the Medoctec on the other. The Medoctec, however, though 

 heading with the St. Croix, empties here near the Grand Lake, an 

 error which I have elsewhere explained \ as probably due to a con- 

 fusion of the river named Meductic (Eel river, below Woodstock), with 

 the creek or point named No-dec-tic by the Maliseets, which is situated a 

 short distance above the mouth of the Belleisle on the west bank. This 

 error, however it arose, persisted long and was only rectified near the close 

 of the century. Another error, for which I can think of no excuse, is the 

 placing of the C'hacodi so far to the westward and making it so large, for 

 on Jumeau, from which it was no doubt taken, it is correctly given to- 

 Barnaby's river, a small stream not far from the mouth of the Miramichi. 

 This error, also, soon became prevalent and was intensitied, so that Chacodi 

 became a]»plied to the main .south branch of the Miramichi, and so ajipears 

 on many maps ; while later, even in the present centurj-, in both maps^ 

 and documents, through a confusion of the Indian name of the Miramichi 

 (Restujoachiehe, or Little Eestigouche), with the Eestigouche itself, 

 Chacodi became transferred to a south branch of the latter river : l)ut, 

 finally, after all these wanderings, it has become extinct. What an inertia 

 some errors seem to have when once started, backed by authority ! The 

 Grand Lake is here very clearly shown for the first time on a jirinted 

 map, no doubt from Franquelin, though his C'/iimenpy (Indian, Che-min- 

 pic, now Salmon river) has become misprinted to Chimanisti, in whicli 



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