16 (p. 109).--Reference is here made to the "Pandects," or _Corpus Juris Civilis_, a collection of the Roman civil law, made in the sixth century by Emperor Justinian. The "law of Alluvions" has two branches,--the law of abandonment, and that of accretion (_acquirendo_). Biard's reference is to the _Corpus Juris Civilis_, Digest, book 41 ("_De adquirendo rerum dominio_"), 29 and 30. The sign ff, used in our text, was employed by early jurisconsults to signify the Digest, and even the Pandects as a whole; it is supposed to be a corruption of the Greek character [^p] (or perhaps of [th]).--See Hermann Hugo's _De Prima Scribendi Origine_ (Antwerp, 1617), p. 153. 17 (p. 109).--Regarding the Count de Soissons, see vol. ii., _note_ 24. 18 (p. 109).--Cf. with these arguments of Biard, Champlain's "_Abregé des decovvertvres de la Nouuelle France_," in his _Voyages_ (ed. 1632), part 2, pp. 290-296; and Hinsdale's "Right of Discovery," in _Ohio Archæol. and Hist. Quarterly_, Dec., 1888. 19 (p. 113).--Concerning the French fisheries in Newfoundland, which, with the neighboring Banks, furnished the greater part of the Canadian product, see Prowse's _Hist. N.F._, pp. 49-50; and Dionne's _Nouv. France_, chaps. viii., ix. For a detailed account of the Canadian fisheries at the present time, see Joncas's "Fisheries of Canada," in _Canadian Economics_ (Montreal, 1884), pp. 41-73. Lalemant says (doc. no. xviii., _post_) that the usual exportation of beaver skins from New France was 12,000 to 15,000 annually; and that it had, in one year, been 22,000. These skins were sold in France at a pistole each, or ten livres. The Company of Merchants is said to have realized an annual dividend of 40 per cent on its investment. Garneau cites De Caen as saying, when Quebec was restored to him by Kirk, in 1632: "But as for our settlement, my people have found it utterly consumed, along with 9,000 beaver skins, valued at 40,000 livres."--_Histoire du Canada_ (4th ed., Montreal, 1882), vol. i., p. 127, _note_ *. See, also, chapter on "New France and the Fur-trade," in H. H. Bancroft's _N.W. Coast_, vol. i., pp. 378-403; and Dionne's _Nouv. France_, chap. xiii. Gagnon's _Essai de bibliographie canadienne_ (Quebec, 1895), p. 128, mentions Bruslons's _Dictionnaire universel de commerce_ (Savary's ed., Paris, 1723) as "an immense compilation, containing highly valuable information in regard to Canadian commerce in the seventeenth century."