inferred from the following excerpt: "A name, in Lower Normandy, for
cliffs hollowed out below, and where fishermen search for crabs."--
_Littre_. The harbor delineated on Champlain's local map is now called
Palmerston Bay, and is at the mouth of Petit River. The latitude of
this harbor is about 44 deg. 15'. De Laet's description is fuller than that
of Champlain or Lescarbot.--_Vide Novus Orbis_, 1633, p. 51.

23. Liverpool, which for a long time bore the name of Port Rossignol; the
lake at the head of the river, about ten miles long and two or three
wide, the largest in Nova Scotia, still bears that appellation. The
latitude is 44 deg. 2' 30".

24. "Lequel ils appelerent _Le Port du Mouton_, a l'occasion d'un mouton
qui s'estant nove revint a bord, et fut mange de bonne guerre."--
_Histoire de la Nouvelle-France_, par Marc Lescarbot, Paris, 1612,
Qvat. Liv. p. 449. It still bears the name of Port Mouton, and an
island in the bay is called Mouton Island.

25. _Baye de Toutes-isles_. Lescarbot calls it "La Baye des Iles:" and
Charlevoix, "Baye de toutes les Isles." It was the bay, or rather the
waters, that stretch along the shores of Halifax County, between Owl's
Head and Liscomb River.

26. The confiscated provisions taken in the vessels of the Basque
fur-traders and in that of Rossignol were, according to Lescarbot,
found very useful. De Monts had given timely notice of his monopoly;
and, whether it had reached them or not, they were doubtless wrong in
law. Although De Monts treated them with gentleness, nevertheless it is
not unlikely that a compromise would have been better policy than an
entire confiscation of their property, as these Basques afterwards, on