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     Now having consulted “ John Speed,” of anno 
     
     660, let us take a look at Cundall’s new Map of 
     
     . E.Island; or turn over a few leaves of John Ings’ 
     
     ‘Islander,” anno 1860, and we shall then see that 
     
     1'. Henry Cundall, one of the natives, and the pre- 
     
     ent Queen’s Printer, have rather the best of it, and 
     
     hat Emigraters may do worse than direct their in- 
     
     telligent attention to the third degree of prosperity 
     
     to which natural fertility, the diffusion ofusef'ul know- 
     
     ledge, and the blessing ofGod, has conducted the 
     
     Prince Edward Island of 1861, the making of which 
     
     deserving little Colony,better known and appreciated, 
     
     .is the respectful intention ofthe writer ofthese pages 
     
     ——believing in the truth of the quotation at the head 
     
     of this introductory chapter. 
     
    
   
   
    
         
     
         
     
           
     
    
   
   
    
     CHAPTER II. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ What’s in a. name? ”—Juliet. 
     
     3F I“ :l‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     “ My name, dear Saint, is hateful to myself.”—Romeo. 
     
     Act [1. Some 2. 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE story of the discovery of this “ tight little 
     
     Island,” on the feast of St. John, A.D. 1497, by the 
     
     navigating Cabot, or Cabbot, may contain much that 
     
     is picturesque, and easily furnish a good moral, but 
     
     while it lacks confirmation, it must be ranged with 
     
     the fables of history. It is one of those stories that 
     
     has been shifted from the possible to the probable 
     
     till it has become, to the crcdulous—true. While 
     
     in the same mood, we may further indulge our fancies 
     
     and say, it may or it may not be true, that pala- 
     
     tial residences in Newfoundland and New Brunswick 
     
    

    
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