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Includes reproduction of original t.-p. of the translation: Nova Francia: or The description of that part of New France, which is one continent with Virginia. Described on the three late voyages and plantation made by Monsieur de Monts, Monsieur du Pont-Graué, and Monsieur de Poutrincourt, into the countries called by the French men La Cadie, lying to the southwest of Cape Breton. Together with an excellent seuerall treatie of all the commodities of the said countries and manners of all the natural inhabitants of the same. Translated out of the French into English by P. Erondelle. Londini, Impensis Georgii Bishop. 1609. |
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The translation was made, at the request of Richard Hakluyt, from Marc Lescarbot's Historie de la Nouvelle France (1st edition, 1609). It covers only the part relating to the voyages and settlements of de Monts, Pontgravé and Poutrincourt, with the book on the Indians. |
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