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DeSeble remains today ee one or the surviving names

of the old French regime on Prince Edward Ieland.

It ie recorded both by French Census of 1752 end a later report of T. Pichon, French Army Officer and traveller, that here several families totalling 30 . people were found settled on the benke and upper reaches of a tidal river which they had named "The'

Sable or 'Riviere de Seble'p- River of Send".

The harbour entrance from the see appears on early ' : Erench.mepe es Anne Du Nord Quest ~ Cove, or Little I Bay of Earth West. . 1

It is likely that these settlers came, not directly

from France, but across the Horthumberland Strait

. from the mainland of Acadia after the war between

Britein and France 1745 - 1748.

At any rate, it wes'reported as a thriving and pros-