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Cartography. 



III. ADDITIONS AKD CORRECTIONS TO THE ^lONOGRAPH 

 ON CARTOGRAPHY. 



325. Two further examples of survival of ancient types of maps 

 into modem times may be here cited. The map of Acadia in the latest 

 edition of Parkman's " ]\I(ontcalm and Wolfe" (1897) shows a part 

 of the southern coast of New Brunswick practically following DesBarres 

 map of 1780, over a centun^ earlier. The cause of the survival is easy 

 to show. This map follows that in earlier editions of Parkman's work, 

 which in turn was taken largely from Haliburton's " Nova Sootia," 

 which was taken from Purdy's Cabotia of 1814 (and later), which draw 

 the interior topography of southern New Brunswick from DesBarres, 

 1780, (on page 392 of the cartography), the best map of the interior 

 then available. 



But a much more remarkable case is found in the map of the Mari- 

 time Provinces in the volume on Canada in Stanford's Compendiujn 

 of Geography and Travel, a work prepared with great care. This map 

 marks " Kilmaquac " in York, " Trues " in Charlotte, " Howardville " 

 in Northumberland, old and long abandoned names along, the Resti- 

 gouche, and other features belonging at least fifty years earlier. It is 

 not difficult to tnace l^lie origin of these namee, for they occur upon 

 maps by Wyld of date prior to 1840. 



327. The pre-differentiation types. Since the publication of this 

 Cartography there has been great activity in the study of early Ameri- 

 can cartography, and not only have several valuable works appeared 



upon the subject (for example Harrisse Découverte Terre 



Neuve, and Nordenskj old's "Periplus") but several collections 

 of photographic fac-similes of early American maps, notably 

 Stevenson's fine series of " Maps illustrating early discovery and 

 exploration in America, 1502-1530," and Hantsch and Schmidt, 

 '•' Kartographische Denkmaler," have been issued, making accessible 

 both some new maps and also better copies of some of the older 

 ones. So far as my observation has extended, nothing of vital 

 importance, nothing tending to supply any great amount of new 

 knowledge, or to cause any great change in our present ideas, has 

 developed. Nevertheless in the light of these new materials, the entire 

 cartography of Acadia needs a critical re-examination, which I hope 

 later to give. 



331. On the identity of the places named on the Maggiolo map, 

 Weise's " Discovery of America " is very important. 



