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their Meat, which they eat finging ; fuch fond and Superftitious Conceits make up 

 the Religion of thefe poor deluded People. 



Sect. V. 



Accadia, or Nova Scotia. 



NOva Scotia, or 2{f» Scotland, formerly call'd Accadia, is commonly accounted 

 a part of New France, (yi%. that part which lying on the South fide of the 

 River Canada, and (hooting South-Eafterly into a bofom of the Sea, forms 

 it felfinto zfeninfula, between the Gulph of St. Lawrence, and the Bay Francoife) 

 neverthelefs, becaufe of the different concernments of this part of the Countrey, in 

 regard the right of claim to feveral places in this diftrift, mod efpecially of all No- 

 Va Francia befides, hath been long in difpute between Us and the French, it will be 

 moft convenient to Treat of it apart . and becaufe the Series of Affairs, from its 

 firft difcovcry, till of late years, appears faithfully reprefented on the Englift part, 

 in a Remonftrance AddrefsM to the King and Council by Sir LeVts %irk, and his 

 Brother John I\irk Efquire 5 it will not be amifs (onely adding fome few things up- 

 on occafion) to follow exactly the Narration of Affairs, delivered in the faid Re- 

 monftrance to this effect. 



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" i . I- 1 "^He whole Traft or Space of Land in America, lying on either fide of the 

 " JL River Canada, which a long time fince were known by the Names of 

 u NoVa Francia, and Nova Scotia, were at firft difcover'd and found out by the Engm 

 " lift, in the time of | Henry the Seventh , King of England . which Expedition 

 " was firft undertaken at the Command and Charges of that King; afterwards 

 €i further'd and carry 'd on by the favorable Afpeft of Queen Elizabeth-, fo that in 

 " procefs of time, for many years together, the faid Trad: of Ground, with abfo- 

 " lute Priyiledge of free Commerce, fell under the Jurifdi&ion and Power of the 

 Crown of England : Neither was it unto any other Chilian Princes, or their Sub- 

 jects more clearly known or difcover'd, untill about the year 1600. fome of the 

 <c French underftanding the benefit arifing byTraffique in the River of St. Laurence, 

 " having formerly feiz'd upon that Traft of Land, fituate on the North fide of 

 "the faid Floud or River Canada, did afterwards, in Anno 1604. {under the Q>n* 

 duel o/Peter de Gua, Lord o/Monts, who in the year 1 606. "too* follo^'d by Monfieur. 

 de Pourtrincourt) Poffefs themfelves of V Accaiie , lying on the South fide of 

 u the faid River, naming the whole Njva Francia, challenging to themfelves for 

 " many years, at leaft de faclo, the Poffeffion thereof, with fble liberty of Com- 

 " merce there. 



" 2. In Anno 1611. King James of England looking upon the Poffeffion gotten 

 " there by the French, as upon an Invafion, did by his Letters Patents Grant un- 

 " to Sir William Alexander a Scotchman ( Created afterwards Earl of Sterling , by I\ing 

 " Charles the Firft) V Jccaiie, by the Name of £{oVa Scotia - who in the year 1 622, 

 €i and 1 6 2 3 . after Sir Samuel Argal had driven out Biard and Maffe, and demolxfting their 

 u Fort , carry d them frifoners to Virginia ; having obtained the Poffeffion thereof, 

 cc they Planted a Colony therein, and kept Poffeffion for about two years after, 

 until fuch time, as upon the Marriage of his Majefty King Charles the Firft, with 

 the Lady Henrietta Maria, the faid V Accadie, or NoVa Scotia, was by Order of the 

 li King of England returned into the Poffeffion of the French. 



" 3. Afterwards a War arifing between his Majefty King Qharles the Firft, and 



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