I08 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF NEWFOUNDLAND 

 AUTHORITIES. 



There are descriptions of Placentia in : 



Bacqueville de la Potherie, Histoire de V Amfrique Septcntrionale , 

 1721-2. First letter. lie was there 1697. 



(Abbe"; Jean Beaudoin, Les Nonnands au Canada, Journal de F Ex- 

 pedition de D'lbeti'iUc, 1696-7, edited by A. Gosselin, 1900. He 

 was with D'Iberville, 1696-7. 



Jean de la Hontan, Nouveaux Voyages, 1703, Letter xxiii and Memoirs. 

 Its translation (1703) is edited by R. (1. Thwaites, 1905, He was 

 there 1692, and was King's Lieutenant there 1693. 



P. F. X. de Charlevoix, Histoire et Description genfrale de la 

 N'ouvclle- France, 1744, translated by J. G. Shea, 1872, vol. iii, p. 141, 

 &c., vol. \, passim (see Index, 'Newfoundland'), and mainly based on 

 above. 



The copies of French Statistics, Orders of the King, &c., referred to 

 in the notes, were kindly shown to me by Dr. Doughty the archivist of 

 the Dominion at Ottawa. Other statistics are contained in the Official 

 Censuses of Canada, 1665 to 1871, published as vol. IV of the Census 

 of 1870-1. Where there are trilling divergences in 1687 and 1691 

 I follow the printed statistics. 



Edouard Richard's Supplement (1901) to D. Brymner's Report (iRgq} 

 on Canadian Archives calendars various French official documents 

 relating to the French colonies in North America. 



C. M. Andrews and F. G. Davenport, Guide to the MSS. materials 

 for tJie History of the I'nited States dcnvn to 1783 in the British 

 Museum and Oxford and Cambridge Libraries, 1908, is of assistance to 

 historical research. 



