SOURCE: Text is reprinted from the original, in Lenox Library; Title-page is photographic facsimile of original, in Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. PECULIARITIES OF ORIGINAL: The text only, is paged. P. 191 is wrongly numbered, 181; p. 256 to the last page (340), are wrongly numbered, 263 to 338. Chap. xi. is wrongly numbered xii.; succeeding chapters are consecutively numbered therefrom, xiii., xiv., etc., except that Chap. xix. in this arrangement, is wrongly numbered xxi.; but this transposition of letters has not affected the numbering of subsequent chapters. Chaps. i.-xxv. (correct numbering) are given in the present volume; the rest of this document will appear in Volume IV. [Illustration: RELATION DE LA NOVVELLE FRANCE, DE SES TERRES, NATVREL DV Païs, & de ses Habitans, _ITEM_, Du voyage des Peres Iesuites ausdictes contrées, & de ce qu'ils y ont faict iusques à leur prinse par les Anglois. _FAICTE_ Par le P. PIERRE BIARD, Grenoblois de la Compagnie de IESVS. _A LYON_, Chez LOVYS MVGVET, en ruë Merciere. _M. DCXVI._ Auec Priuilege du Roy.] RELATION OF NEW FRANCE, OF ITS LANDS, NATURE OF THE COUNTRY, and of its Inhabitants, _ALSO_, Of the voyage of the Jesuit Fathers to said country, and of their work there up to the time of their capture by the English. _WRITTEN_ By Father PIERRE BIARD, of Grenoble, of the Society of JESUS. _LYONS_, LOVYS MVGVET, ruë Merciere. 1616. By Royal License. [iii] Av Roy. _SIRE,_