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of 1548 (see the preceding paper, page 446), where it appears as 

 Larcadia. That the word is here Larcadia instead of the Arch- 

 ADIA of the Italian letter of Verrazano is no doubt explained by the 

 fact that Gastaldi used French and not Italian originals, as proven by 

 the entire nomenclature of his map. Such usage was natural, since 

 Verrazzano, though an Italian, made his voyage for the King of 

 France, and both his official report and his map, both now lost, would 

 necessarily have been translated into French. The prefixed L is 

 presumably the French article. However this may be, there is no 

 question as to the identity of Larcadia and Archadia, since on 

 Gastaldi's map the word Larcadia has precisely the same relation 

 to other names given by Venazzano (viz. Angouleme and Refuge), as 

 has Archadia in the manuscript. Now Gastaldi's map is a map 

 of Tierra nueva, practically New France, and it has Larcadia near 

 its western part, while it happens that the entire topography 

 is so greatly condensed from Larcadia to Cape Breton as to make 

 that region seem like the coast of Nova Scotia. Indeed, so competent 

 .and careful a student as Kohl, in his well-known work on the early 

 cartography of Maine, took the Angoulesme of a nearly identical 

 map by Gastaldi to represent Passamaquoddy Bay, in which case 

 Larcadia would have fallen in eastern Maine. Gastaldi's map was 

 printed, and hence accessible to makers of later maps, upon many of 

 which the name appears either as L arc adi a or Arcadia, as summarized 

 in the article to which this is a supplement. In all of these cases the 

 word occurs at no great distance to the westward of Cape Breton. 

 Indeed, on a very detailed map of about 1560, cited in the article 

 afore-mentioned, the name Arcadia is applied to a peninsula parallel 

 with the coast, just to the westward of Golfo de san Lorenzo. Further, 

 on a very detailed and beautiful map of a different type, by F. Simon, 

 dated 1580, in the British Museum, the name Larcadia Pro: [Pro- 

 vince] occurs in large letters right across the territory of the present 

 New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. From some of these maps, it 

 seems evident, Champlain took the Arcadie which he uses throughout 

 his Des Saunages of 1603, and the writer of the De Monts' commission 

 of 1603 took the La Cadie of that document. It would be quite too 

 extraordinary a' coincidence that with Arcadia applied on the maps 

 of the time to the coast just to the westward of the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence, Champlain would have obtained a Micmac place name sufîfix- 

 acadie, transformed it into Arcadie, and applied it to precisely 

 the same region. From Champlain's Arcadie to the later Acadie 

 the transition is perfect. 



In view of the facts, I can see no escape from the conclusion, 

 unwelcome though it is, that our Acadie is not an indigenous name 



