[395] [It reproduced the drawings of the West-India manuscript, and also the plates of the early printed editions; but as lithographs of copper-plates they are not very successful. It is now worth about $25 in paper. Field, Indian Bibliography, p. 66; cf. Revue des Questions historiques, 1er Juillet, 1873.—Ed.]
[396] [Abstracts of Champlain’s Canadian voyages will be found in Harris’s Collection of Voyages, vol. i. etc., and there is a narrative in the Mercure François, xix. 803, which in Parkman’s opinion was “perhaps written by Champlain.”
One of the best accounts for the English reader of Champlain and his associates will be found in Parkman’s Pioneers of France in the New World. Summaries are given in Guerin’s Navigateurs Français, p. 249; Ferland’s Histoire du Canada, book ii.; Miles’s Canada, chaps. 5-10; Warburton’s Conquest of Canada, etc.—Ed.]
[397] [Cf. Shea’s Charlevoix, i. 76.—Ed.]
[398] [See the note on “The Jesuit Relations,” sub anno 1627.—Ed.]
[399] The Historiæ Canadensis of Creuxius contains a list of the members of this Company under the title, Nomina Centenum, qui primi Societatem Nouae Franciae conflauerunt. Cf. Massachusetts Archives: Documents collected in France, i. 527, and references in Harrisse, nos. 43, 54, 430, 432, 433, 434, 438, 441, 455, 476, 532, 533; and cf. Ferland, Cours d’Histoire du Canada, p. 259, Shea’s Charlevoix, ii. 39, and notes.
[400] The letters-patent to Roberval copied from the original parchment, dated Fontainbleau, Jan. 15, 1540, is in Massachusetts Archives; Documents Collected in France, i. 373.
[401] Cf. Hakluyt’s Westerne Planting, pp. 26, 101, 197, 198. A copy of his commission is in Massachusetts Archives; Documents Collected in France, i. 431.
[402] The patent granted to De Monts, with other documents confirming his claims, was printed at the time in a small volume, copies of which are in the library of Mr. Charles Deane and in the Carter-Brown Library (Catalogue, vol. ii. no. 33).
