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on Goat Island, opposite Annapolis (Port Poyal), in 
Nova Scotia, bearing a Masonic coat-of-arms and the 
date 1606, which is fourteen years earlier than the 
landing of the Pilgrims. This was left in the possession 
of Judge Haliburton, of Nova Scotia. 
There were Jesuit priests in what has since been 
called New England, converting the savages at Mount 
Desert, then St. Savior, in 1613, — having come over 
to Port Poyal in 1611, though they were almost imme¬ 
diately interrupted by the English, years before the 
Pilgrims came hither to enjoy their own religion. This 
according to Champlain. Charlevoix says the same ; and 
after coming from France in 1611, went west from Port 
Royal along the coast as far as the Kennebec in 1612, 
and was often carried from Port Royal to Mount Desert. 
Indeed, the Englishman’s history of New England com¬ 
mences, only when it ceases to be. New France. Though 
Cabot was the first to discover the continent of North 
America, Champlain, in the edition of his “Voyages” 
printed in 1632, after the English had for a season got 
possession of Quebec and Port Royal, complains with no 
little justice: “ The common consent of all Europe is to 
represent New France as extending at least to the thirty- 
fifth and thirty-sixth degrees of latitude, as appears by 
the maps of the world printed in Spain, Italy, Holland, 
Flanders, Germany, and England, until they possessed 
themselves of the coasts of New France, where are 
Arcadie, the Etchemins (Maine and New Brunswick), 
the Almouchicois (Massachusetts ?), and the Great River 
St. Lawrence, where they have imposed, according to 
their fancy, such names as New England, Scotland, and 
others; but it is not easy to efface the memory of a 
thing which is known to all Christendom.” 
