. A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou : his voyages to the St. Lawrence. A bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534, with annotations, been thought to representthe gulf and river St. Lawrence. If this is so, 1^tC^r«, DOR- / -i -f^S^/wO \^_^ JTlJ^^ >V&^V-«-*r^ ss X ^ ^omos t ^^ y9 deaves ^n^ c- c/e morco ^.oy? de/reyfu>s ZL^ b . ^L oyC ^ C- c/p/ efpero vj ^ 1 45 5^ $9 % «» *7 ? 40 Ribeiro— 1529 Viegas shows an almost absurd ignorance of the truecartography of the region. The river das poblas isbut a short distance northwest of Cape Breton, andwoul
. A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou : his voyages to the St. Lawrence. A bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534, with annotations, been thought to representthe gulf and river St. Lawrence. If this is so, 1^tC^r«, DOR- / -i -f^S^/wO \^_^ JTlJ^^ >V&^V-«-*r^ ss X ^ ^omos t ^^ y9 deaves ^n^ c- c/e morco ^.oy? de/reyfu>s ZL^ b . ^L oyC ^ C- c/p/ efpero vj ^ 1 45 5^ $9 % «» *7 ? 40 Ribeiro— 1529 Viegas shows an almost absurd ignorance of the truecartography of the region. The river das poblas isbut a short distance northwest of Cape Breton, andwould much better represent the Bay Chaleur. It ispossible that Viegas obtained his information respect- 68 MEMOIR OF JACQUES CARTIER ing this bay and river from old maps, or from state-ments of Portuguese fishermen, who had penetratedthe bay on the south. The map of Riccardiana ofabout the same date indicates openings to the northand south, but not continued far to the west. Inspite, however, of these maps, it is quite certain that /foxoO C^onses. Bonne . ^^^^« CO) Bone O Bocco//ZaoCo/jcepcion Desliens— 1541 an opening north of Newfoundland was known be-fore Cartiers visit to the region. It is probable thatSpanish and Portuguese cosmographers knew of sucha passage, but kept the coast-line closed in theircharts to deceive other nations who were studying 5^ 69 MEMOIR OF JACQUES CARTIER that part of the world/ Cartier himself seems tohave had a knowledge of this opening, perhaps ob-tained in some subsequent voyage to the coast, orfrom fishermen who had been there ; certainly, heseems to have set out on his initial voyage of discoverywith the deliberate purpose of exploring this openingto its extreme limit. He made the usual atterrage atBonavista, followed the coast up to the Strait of BelleIsle, and, turning into it, pursued his course south-westwardly with a confidence born of seems strange that if Spanish and Portuguese cos-mographers possesse
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