THE MOOSE AND HIS HISTORY 7 



France, lawyer, poet, and Huguenot sympathiser, 

 spent some time with de Monts' colony in Acadia. 



Lescarbot's Moose 



On his map of Port Royal (Annapolis Basin, Nova 

 Scotia), he shows R[iviere] de VOrignac^ This 

 is represented on recent maps under the name of 

 Moose River. It is a short and insignificant 

 stream when the tide is out, but twice a day, 



