86 ‘The French in Prince Edward Island

Company, another the same length for the fishermen, one 50 feet long for the employees of the Company and strangers, one 50 feet long for the officers of the Navy, and the thirty-six-month men, one 50 feet long for a storehouse, one 62 feet long for the master workmen and their assistants, three 40 feet long for a bakery, a forge, and a stable, respectively, the latter to house also the fowl and the doves. This re- quired 3000 posts, 5000 planks, 1500 joists, 450 rafters, 200 rails, 170 beams, 50 flagstones; and some of them had to be brought from a distance over the ice on sleds for which new roads had to be made each day because of the snow. The buildings were made air-tight by moss and clay and were heated by thirteen brick chimneys, made from clay on the spot, which were kept going night and day for seven months in the year, consuming a vast amount of fuel. To preserve the food of the establishment a refrig- erator was constructed and to supply it with water two wells were dug in which four pumps were placed. In addition to this he built up a spring which was six feet below high tide, and when it was rendered use- less by the ice in winter he discovered another some 600 or '700 paces from the cape and pressed it into service. From this and the pumps he estimated that 1200 hogsheads were drawn for drinking, washing, making beer, and watering the horses. In the oven were baked during the same period some 800 quin- tals of flour. About every building he laid out a vegetable garden surrounded by a brush fence; and he also enclosed in a similar manner a plot for peas