88 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF NEWFOUNDLAND 



Placentia 

 being su- 

 preme. 



sub-seitlement. If we now pass westward out of Placentia 

 Bay, Fortune Head, Grand Bank, and the islands of St. Pierre 

 and Miquelon near the foot of the peninsula which separates 

 Placentia Bay from Fortune Bay, may be classed together as 

 a second sub-settlement, while in Hermitage, Connaigre (Cap 

 Negre), and Britton (Bertrand) Bays, on the north-west of 

 Fortune Bay, there was a third tiny sub-settlement of 

 Placentia. The French settlers (excluding servants) and 

 servants were as follows : J 



* Was 47 in 1711. 



In 1687 the women of the colony were 63, of whom 46 

 were at Placentia, and the cattle of the colonists were 53, of 

 which 47 were at Placentia. The King's fleet, which sailed 

 between France and Canada, and the French fishing fleets, 

 which frequented the south coasts, annually visited it ; but the 

 St. Malo fleet, which frequented the north-east coasts between 

 Cape Freels and Belle Isle Strait, had little if anything to do 

 with it, or with any other French settlement, nor did the 

 fishermen of St. Malo settle. Placentia, including its daughter 

 settlements, resembled an isolated wayside inn on the highway 

 from Paris to Quebec ; and the highway ran between Cape 

 Breton Island and Newfoundland. 



No figures could illustrate more vividly, than those which 



1 Abbreviated from copies of the French Records at Ottawa. 



