CANADA IN THE BODLEIAN. 375 



That is to say : " The land of America an isthmus, narroW; and midway 

 between a southern and a northern sea, cuts in two : it, moreover, men 

 surname the Darien : above it expands the Northern America; below 

 it, the Southern. I shall speak first of the Northern. On the boreal 

 coasts that line the Hudsonian Gulf on the one hand, extends a new 

 Wales ; on the other, a New Britain. Then next expands the Franks' new 

 domain, on both sides the fair flowing Canada's deep stream, whence 

 men call it, in other words, the land of Canada. There on the river is 

 the city of Quebec. Thence southward far, along the boreal Amphi- 

 trite's shore, are distributed the descendants of English men. Some of 

 them inhabit the fertile soil of a new England; there on the shore of 

 the sea is the city of Boston; some of them, the country and city of 

 York the new ; some of them, the twofold region of a new Jersey; some 

 of them, the once sylvan land of Penu — there is the well-built city of 

 Philadelphia. Others of them again inhabit the soil and city named 

 from Mary; and others, the area named from a virgin queen. There is 

 the city surnamed of James; and others, the soil and city named from 

 Charles, the most remote on the continent, of English men. Next is 

 spread out to the south the land of Flowers, where upon the seaboard 

 is Augustine's dwelling." 



It will be noticed above, in the eleventh line, that the name " Canada" 

 is applied to the river St. Lawrence; and the statement is made that 

 " the surrounding country takes its name from the river." An occa- 

 sion will arise in the course of the present paper to make some obser- 

 vations on this and some other points in the extract. The usage of 

 designating the St. Lawrence as the great river of Canada, was for a 

 time in vogue among early writers. Again : at line 1303, we have an 

 enumeration of the islands appertaining to the American continent. 

 The lines relating to Newfoundland are given, the name of the 

 "fair-flowing" Canada occurring therein, again as designating the St. 

 Lawrence, 



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1303—1308. 



That is : " Now speeding in thy bark afar, across the wide stream of the 

 Atlantic ocean, come to the American land. There at the vast outlet 



