CANADA IN THE BODLEIAN. 409 



illustrating tlie additions of his continuator, the St. Lawrence is marked 

 " Flumeu Canada; " and in the Greek text we have, as we have heard, 

 the stream of the "fair-flowing Canada" spoken of. In Hubert 

 Jaillot's old map of America, of the date 1692, examined by me in 

 1867, in the Library at Lambeth, the St. Lawrence is called " Riviere 

 du Canada." In this map the sea along the whole coast of the present 

 United States is also styled " Mer du Canada." 



Some of the old geographers undertook to teach that the country 

 derived its name from the river, and so probably misled some of the 

 writers in the Bodleian folio. Thus Gordon, in his " Geography Anato" 

 mized," a work of repute, in its 6th edition, in 1711, in a section entitled 

 ''Terra Canadensis," says the land is so called from the "River Canada,' 

 which divides it into two parts. The north part, he says, is called "Terra 

 Canadensis Propria," and contains Nova Britannia and Nova Francia. 

 The southern part contains Nova Scotia, New England, New York, New 

 Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Carolina. " Terra Cana- 

 densis Propria," Gordon continues, being the northmost of all the rest, 

 is esteemed none of the best ; but being so slenderly known as yet, he 

 candidly says, we pass on to Nova Britannia and the rest. And again ; 

 Morden, author of a quarto Geography bearing the date of 1680, at 

 page 366, teaches to the same effect. " Canada," he writes, " so called 

 from the river Canada, which hath its fountains in the undiscovered 

 parts of this tract; sometimes enlarging itself into greater lakes, and 

 presently contracting into a narrow channel, with many great windings 

 and falls, having embosomed almost all the rest of the rivers. After a 

 known eastern course of near fifteen hundred miles, it empties itself 

 into the great bay of St. Lawrence, over against the Isle of Assumption 

 [Anticosti), being at the mouth 30 leagues in breadth, and 150 fathoms 

 deep. On the north side whereof, the French (following the track of 

 Cabot) made a further discovery of these said northern parts, by the 

 name of Nova Francia." 



It is true that many countries and regions on this continent were 

 named from rivers by the European immigrants, as Ohio, Arkansas, 

 Delaware, Iowa, Tennesee; but not Canada. Morden's expression, 

 when he speaks of the river Canada " enlarging itself into greater 

 lakes," reminds one of Wordsworth's allusion to the St. Lawrence ia 

 the Excursion, wbere he speaks of 



" that Northern stream. 



That spreads into successive seas." 



