"Carte Du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France et des Decouvertes qui y ont été faites dresseé sur plusieurs Observations et sur un grand nombre de Rélations imprimées ou manuscrites Par Guillaume De l'Isle [ ] de l'Academie Royale des Sciences _et Premier Geographe du Roy_ A Paris chez l'Auteur sur le Quai de l'Horloge a l'Aigle d'Or avec Privilege de sa Maj^{te} pour 20 ans 1703." The date at the foot, "1703," and which had so cruelly misled the gentlemen who prepared the indorsements on the map, was the date, not of the publication of that edition of the map, but of the _original_ publication, from which dated the twenty years' copyright granted by the king as above stated. When that impression of the map was originally printed, in the year 1703, the printed title varied from the above, by having the word "_Géographe_" occupying the vacant space above-contained in brackets; and by the absence of the line "_et premier Géographe du Roy_," so evidently interposed subsequently between the preceding and subsequent lines. And the fact was, that on the 24th August 1718, fifteen years after the original publication of the map, De l'Isle had received the high appointment of "PREMIER Géographe du Roi." M. Teulet, one of the keepers of the "Register of the Secretary of State" in France, a "register of the greatest possible authenticity,"--"the _only_ register of authentic documents in which the commission of Guillaume De l'Isle could be found," produced an "extract made after the most authentic manner in France, certified by the keeper of the register, and by the seal of the archives of France,"--an "extract which would have all possible authenticity in a court of justice in France," and which extract M. Teulet "had compared twice over, word for word, and letter for letter, with the record," and swore that "it was correct." The extract was as follows:-- "Du vingt quatre Aout mil sept cent dix huit "Brevet de Premier Géographe du Roy pour l S^r. De l'Isle." The entry runs thus in English:--