—  Pubnico :  Origin  of  Name.  —  Marsh  and  Meadow  Lands. — Climate.  —  Wild  Game.  —
John  MacMunn  discovers  Woodcock.  —  Acadia :  Origin  and  Meaning  of  Name.  —  Champ-
Iain's  Visit  to  Yarmouth  Harbor  in  1604.  —  Did  not  describe  Mud-flats  as  "  Meadows."  —
Eel-grass,  a  Submarine  Plant.  —  Old  Limits  of  Acadia,

UNDER  date  of  Jan.  30,  1886,  Mr.  Campbell,  writing  to  "The
Yarmouth  Herald,"  '  intimates  that  in  the  highly  interesting  series
of  letters  Mr.  Cameron  is  writing  for  "  The  Halifax  Herald,"  he  has  not
credited  to  the  "History  of  Yarmouth"  ^^  the  leading  facts  bearing  on
the  UEntretnont  family  collected  on  many  long  journeys  taken  for  the
express  purpose  of  gathering  information  on  that  as  well  as  on  all  other
subjects  in  my  History  of  the  County'^  Other  readers  of  Mr.  Cameron's
letters  have  found  there  nothing  to  sustain  Mr.  Campbell's  grievance,  and
some  of  them  are  at  a  loss  to  know  what  information  is  given  in  Mr.
Campbell's  History  to  have  occasioned  more  than  a  single  journey  to
Pubnico.
Mr.  Campbell  cannot,  at  any  rate,  complain  that  his  History  is  not
given  sufficient  prominence  in  these  notes,  and  their  appearance  may
give  him  room  to  doubt  that,  ^^  although  it  is  [as  Mr.  Campbell  puts
it]  now  ten  years  since  that  History  was  published^  no  fact,  as  therein
stated,  has  ever  yet  been  successfully  questioned ^

Some  of  these  "  facts,"  selected  in  the  order  of  their  occurrence  in
the  pages  of  Mr.  Campbell's  History,  are  made  subjects  for  comment
in  this  chapter.
Page  i.  —  "The  present  County  of  Yarmouth  has  seen  several
changes  as  regards  its  limits."

A  misstatement  meets  us  at  the  threshold.  The  boundaries  and
limits  of  the  County  of  Yarmouth  remain  to-day  as  originally  constituted.
