An historical sketch of the Isle of Orleans, being a paper read before the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, on Wednesday evening, the 4th of April, 186O.
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Abstract
Jean and Saint Laurent, containing an aggregate population of over 6000 souls.Isolated from the mainland and r until lately, pos- sessing but very imperfect communication with the City during the summer months, the Inhabitants of this place (all of French extraction) have preserved the manners and customs of their forefathers more closely than their countrymen on the main-land, and are less contaminated by the fashions and follies of the Town.Owing to the same cause, the Islanders have intermarried chiefly between themselves and in a great majority of cases, the lands are still owned by the direct descendants, bearing the names of the original Grantees.The first historical mention of this Island, is in Jacques Cartier's second voyage to America, when ascending the Saint Lawrence for the first time, he cast Anchor with his Ships, " La Grande Hermine" " La Petite Hermine" and " VEmerillon" off Chateau Richer, between the Great Island (as he called it) and la terre du JYord, where he found peo- ple living and chiefly occupied in fishing.Here he went ashore, taking with him as Interpre- ters, "Taiguraguy" and "Domagaya," the two Gaspe Indians who had accompanied him to Europe in his former voyage : with their assistance, the natives were easily conciliated, received the strangers with I : K every demonstration of joy, and gave them presents of Fish, Millet, (mil) and Melons.Next day, Donnacona, the Chief of the Canadian Indians, (Seigneur du Canada, as he is styled in the narrative,) visited Cartier with twelve boats, full of the Natives, and finding from the mouth of the two Indians, how well they had been treated in Europe, he also exhibited much joy, and kissed Carrier's arms as a mark of gratitude.Cartier afterwards visited the Island, to see the nature of the soil and to examine the 'Frees, which he says, appeared very beautiful : he found them to consist of Oak, Elm, Pine, Cedar and other woods, known in France, and likewise found an im- mense number of vines, which he had not yet met with in the Country, and for that reason he named it Bacchus Isle, Uhle de Bacchus.In the Spring, however, of 1536, as he returned to France, he anchored, he says, at the foot of the" Isle of Orleans,"having in the meantime changed its name, in honor of one of the Royal Family, of France : this reason is not given in Carder's account of his travels, but in Thevet's " Cosmographie Universelle," published in 1575, Book 23, Page 1011, Thevet, who was a personal friend of Cartier's, a great traveller, and M "sire: and this, during 14 or 15 consecutive years 11 without any repose.This beautiful Island continues " happily to be peopled from one end to the other."Between the years 1662 and 1668, the Seigniory of Beaupre passed into the hands of Monseigneur de Laval de Montmorency, first Roman Catholic Bishop of Quebec, who purchased and made a. free gift of it to the Seminary of Quebec.Monseigneur de Laval, on behalf of the said Seminary, (of which he was the Founder,) subsequently exchanged the Isle d'Orleans with Mtre.Francois de Berthelot, Conseiller au Parlement de Paris, for L'Isle Jesus, near Montreal, by deed before Dupare and
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.082 | 0.008 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".