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commanded on one side by an island at the distance of a pistol shot", and he also speaks of its bad water—(Murdoch's History of Nova Scotia, Vol. I, page 249). Moreover, while Denys description of the location of d'Aunay's fort applies thus perfectly to the Carleton site, it fits no other about the harbor. Charnisay's fort then stood at Carleton, but where was LaTour's? Here Denys is not so clear, and all that we can gather with certainty from his account is that it was not on the "old fort" site in Carleton.

The testimony of the maps is in brief as follows: Many maps showing Acadia were published before 1700. Of these some are but copies of others and hence of no value as authorities, but I know of at least four made entirely independently of one another, which place Fort LaTour on the east side of the harbor. In fact, all the maps known to me belonging before 1700 which mark Fort LaTour at all, place it on the east side, with but one exception. This is the fine Duval map which in the editions of 1653 and 1664, as I have been told (I have not seen them) places it on the west side. But the third and improved edition of 1677 removes it from the west to the east side. Now second or later editions of maps like later editions of books are likely to be more accurate than the first, and DuVal must have had good reason for making this change. Another map of much importance has recently been published, (in a fine French Atlas by Marcel) drawn by Franquelin, dated 1708, but really made earlier. Franquelin was in Acadia in 1686 and made by far the best map of the St. John River which had up to that time been drawn, (a copy of which is contained in the the latest volume of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada,) and he therefore knew well the geography of this region. On his 1708 map he marks Fort Martinnon on the west side of the harbor,