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     and another for wheat, after which the whole cape 
     
     back for one or two miles was cleared for future 
     
     crops. 
     
    

    
     To store the fruits of the soil he built a huge cellar, 
     
     120 feet by 16 to 20 feet and 71% feet deep with an 
     
     entrance at each end—the whole carefully supported 
     
     by beams and joists. For clearing the land he made 
     
     several levers 35 feet long on a pivot of 20 feet, and 
     
     for fishing he built two flat boats, two canoes, six 
     
     shallops. 
     
    

    
     To facilitate communication between the different 
     
     parts of his concession and the colony he made a road 
     
     to Cardigan a league in length, one to Sturgeon 
     
     River 1200 paces distant, one to Souris four or five 
     
     leagues distant, another to St. Peters eight leagues 
     
     long, including a bridge 75 feet by 12. The latter 
     
     was abandoned because it crossed two rivers and still 
     
     left two leagues by water, and was superseded by a 
     
     more direct road 81% leagues long, which avoided the 
     
     rivers. This road was essential to the Company be- 
     
     cause at times the sea route to St. Peters where Roma 
     
     had a large fishing establishment was long and dan- 
     
     gerous. For the security of the settlement in case of 
     
     war with the English a road was built to Port La 
     
     Joye in codperation with the garrison. The details 
     
     furnished by Roma show that his roadmaking was 
     
     not such as would have commended itself to those 
     
     accustomed to the magnificent causeways made by 
     
     the corvée, which elicited the reluctant admiration of 
     
     Arthur Young, on his journey through France some 
     
     fifty years later, but they were at least a recognition