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history of New England, extending to one hundred and 
sixty pages quarto; but appears to be unknown equally 
to the historian and the orator on Plymouth Rock. 
Bancroft does not mention Champlain at all among the 
authorities for De Monts’ expedition, nor does he say 
that he ever visited the coast of New England. Though 
he bore the title of pilot to De Monts, he was, in an¬ 
other sense, the leading spirit, as well as the historian 
of the expedition. Holmes, Hildreth, and Barry, and 
apparently all our historians who mention Champlain, 
refer to the edition of 1632, in which all the separate 
charts of our harbors, &c., and about one half the narra¬ 
tive, are omitted; for the author explored so many lands 
afterward that he could afford to forget a part of what 
he had done. Hildreth, speaking of De Monts’s expe¬ 
dition, says that “ he looked into the Penobscot [in 
1605], which Pring had discovered two years before,” 
saying nothing about Champlain’s extensive exploration 
of it for De Monts in 1604 (Holmes says 1608, and 
refers to Purchas) ; also that he followed in the track 
of Pring along the coast ‘‘ to Cape Cod, which he 
called Malabarre.” (Haliburton had made the same 
statement before him in 1829. He called it Cap 
Blanc, and Malle Barre (the Bad Bar) was the name 
given to a harbor on the east side of the Cape.) 
Pring says nothing about a river there. Belknap 
says that Weymouth discovered it in 1605. Sir F. 
Gorges says, in his narration (Maine Hist. Coll., Voi. 
II. p. 19), 1658, that Pring in 1606 ‘‘made a per¬ 
fect discovery of all the rivers and harbors.” This 
is the most I can find. Bancroft makes Champlain to 
have discovered more western rivers in Maine, not 
naming the Penobscot; he, however, must have been 
