Archive image from page 293 of The description and natural history. The description and natural history of the coasts of North America (Acadia) descriptionnatur00deny Year: 1908 248 NATURAL HISTORY OF NORTH [Costi du Nord~\ is in fifty-one Consequently the coasts of France ought to be much colder than those of New France, since the latter are two degrees and a quarter farther south [and opposite] our southern coast. Cap Breton is in lati- tude forty-five and two-thirds degrees, and this marks the main entrance of the Great Bay of Saint Laurent, which is between it and Cap de Rayes [
Archive image from page 293 of The description and natural history. The description and natural history of the coasts of North America (Acadia) descriptionnatur00deny Year: 1908 248 NATURAL HISTORY OF NORTH [Costi du Nord~\ is in fifty-one Consequently the coasts of France ought to be much colder than those of New France, since the latter are two degrees and a quarter farther south [and opposite] our southern coast. Cap Breton is in lati- tude forty-five and two-thirds degrees, and this marks the main entrance of the Great Bay of Saint Laurent, which is between it and Cap de Rayes [Cape Ray]. From the said Cap 1 Our author's argument about the comparative latitudes of Old and New France (meaning thereby his L'Amerique Septentrionale, or Acadia), is involved and not quite correct in its details. Nevertheless, as the accompanying dia- grammatic map will show, his meaning in the main is plain and correct in fact. He means that, taken as a whole, the latitudes including Acadia lie over two Diagrammatic map to illustrate Denys' argument about the corresponding latitudes of New France (L'Amerique Septentrionale, or Acadia) and France. degrees farther south than those including France ; thus they fall opposite the southern coast of France (Coste du Midy) ; while the northern coast of Acadia, from Cape Breton to the River Saint Lawrence, lies more southerly than the corresponding north shore of France, between Nantes and Calais. But while this is in general correct, his deductions therefrom are incorrect, as will later appear.
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