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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 109 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ACADIE, or ACADIA

ACADIE, or ACADIA , a name given by the See also:

French in 1603 to that See also:

PART

part of the mainland of See also:

North See also:

AMERICA

America lying between the latitudes 40° and 46° . In the treaty of See also:

Utrecht (1713) the words used in transferring the French possessions to See also:

BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain were " Nova See also:

SCOTIA (Gr. o'Karca, shadow or darkness)

Scotia or Acadia." See Nova SCOTIA for the limits included at that date under the See also:

TERM

term .

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