Birds_, Boston, 1872. p. 338.

33. The sea-wolf or _loup marin_ of Champlain is the marine mammiferous
quadruped of the family Phocidae, known as the seal. Sea-wolf was a
name applied to it by the early navigators.--_Vide Purchas's Pilgrims_,
London, 1625. Vol. IV. p. 1385. Those here mentioned were the common
seal, _Phoca vitulina_, which are still found on the coasts of Nova
Scotia, vulgarly known as the harbor seal. They are thinly distributed
as far south as Long Island Sound, but are found in great numbers in
the waters of Labrador and Newfoundland, where they are taken for the
oil obtained from them, and for the skins, which are used for various
purposes in the arts.

34. The names given to these birds were such, doubtless, as were known to
belong to birds similar in color, size, and figure in Europe. Some of
them were probably misapplied. The name alone is not sufficient for
identification.

35. This cape, near the entrance to Yarmouth, still bears the same name,
from _fourchu_, forked. On a map of 1755, it is called Forked Cape, and
near it is Fork Ledge and Forked Harbor.--_Memorials of English and
French Commissaries_, London, 1755.

36. It still retains the name given to it by Champlain. It forms a part of
the western limit of St. Mary's Bay, and a line drawn from it to the
St. Croix, cutting the Grand Manan, would mark the entrance of the Bay
of Fundy.

37. The Bay of Fundy was thus first named "Baye Francoise" by De Monts, and
continued to be so called, as will appear by reference to the early