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C. Percé (now Cape Perce)
La Pierre à fusil (Flint Island)
Baye de Morienne (now Cow Bay)
Cap de Morienne (Cape Morien)
Baye de Miré (Mira Bay)
Menadou (Main-à-Dieu)
Passage de Menadou (Main-à-Dieu Passage)
Isle de Scatari (Scatarie Island), with:
* Pointe du Nord Ouest (West Point)
* Les Cormorandières (Cormorandieres Rocks)
* I. de la Tremblade (Hay Island)
* Pointe à la Flouride (Howe Pt.)
I. aux Cannes
Note: Le 'cap Breton' (the cape named: 'Cape Breton ' is not shown on Chabert's map.
Isle de Portenove
A note by Chabert: "Batture où s'est perdu le Chameau" - The French ship Le Chameau sank in 1725.
Marquis de Chabert - Biography / Notice biographique
Joseph-Bernard de Chabert de Cogolin, Marquis de Chabert, (Toulon, 1724 - Paris, 1805)
Chabert, marin et astronome, se signala comme chef d'escadre dans la guerre d'Amérique, fut promu vice-amiral en 1792
et n'en émigra pas moins. C'est surtout par ses travaux scientifiques qu'il est connu : il rectifia les cartes marines des
côtes orientales de l'Amérique ainsi que celles de la Méditerranée et prépara la plus grande partie du Neptune français. Il
avait été admis en 1758 à l'Académie des sciences et fut attaché en 1803 au Bureau des Longitudes.
Novembre 1750 : Établissement du premier observatoire d'astronomie du Canada à Louisbourg, par le marquis de Chabert.
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French naval officer, born in Toulon, 28 February, 1724; died in Paris, 1 December, 1805. He entered the navy in 1741,
and served with the French during the American revolutionary war, greatly distinguishing himself. In 1781 he was made commander
of a squadron, and in 1792 became vice-admiral of the navy.
During the French revolution he retired to England, but returned to Paris in 1802, when he received a pension from Bonaparte,
by whom, in 1804, he was appointed a member of the board of longitudes. He was an accurate observer and in-dustrioushydrographer.
He plannedand executed maps of the shores of North America, the Mediterranean, and especially of Greece. In 1758 he was elected
a member of the French academy. His published works include "Voyages sur les côtes de l'Amérique septentrionale"
(Paris, 1753).
(Source: Edited Appletons Encyclopedia)
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