In my previous post I discussed how the name Acadia came into existence, being the corruption of the name Arcadia given by Verrazzano in 1524 to a large area of land in what is now Virginia. The name never went away and when the Dutch and the English colonised the New England coast in the following centuries, it simply seemed to move northeast until finally it stopped moving in what is now Nova Scotia. There are a couple of maps in the Sixteenth Century that show Arcadia but by the beginning Seventeenth Century Arcadia becomes modified into various derivations such as Cadie. By 1613 Champlain calls it Cadye in his…