transports were wrecked on Egg Island. More than a thousand 
     
     men were drowned. This calamity saved the threatened city, for 
     
     the officers of the expedition became disheartened and abandoned 
     
     the project. 
     
    

    
     As a sequel to that terrible loss of life in the great outer waters 
     
     of the St. Lawrence there has survived one of those traditions of 
     
     which the story of ‘The Flying Dutchman' is the prototype. In 
     
     the words of Moore : 
     
    
   
   
    
     “There lieth a wreck on the dismal shore 
     
     ()f cold and pitiless Labrador 
     
     \Vhere, under the moon upon mounts of frost, 
     
     Full many a mariner's bones are tossed. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Yon shadowy bark hath been to that wreck 
     
     And the dim blue fire that lights her deck 
     
     Doth play on as pale and livid a crew 
     
    

    
     As ever yet drank the churchyard dew. 
     
    
   
   
    
     To Deadman's Isle in the eye of the blast, 
     
    

    
     To Deadman's Isle she speeds her fast; 
     
    

    
     By skeleton shapes her sails are furl'd, 
     
    

    
     And the hand that steers is not of this world l” 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Treaty of Utrecht brought peace to France and Great 
     
     Britain in a division of the land for which they had contended. It 
     
     was agreed that Canada, Isle Royal (Cape Breton) and l'Isle St. 
     
     Jean (Prince Edward Island) should belong to France; while Great 
     
     Britain received Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and the Hudson Bay 
     
     Territory. 
     
    

    
     In the succeeding years the two countries again drifted into 
     
     war, and by the year 1759 it was apparent that Quebec was once 
     
     more to be attacked. Before the year was half over, 
     
     a British fleet bearing 18,000 men dropped anchor 
     
     near the eastern end of the Isle of Orleans. Troops 
     
     were landed to the east of Montmorency River, and 
     
     batteries were erected there and at Point Levis opposite 
     
     Quebec. A bmnbardment lasting two months soon 
     
     followed. The ensuing land struggle, known as the , 
     
     battle of Montmorency, brought face to face the two 
     
     great leaders, Montcalm and \Volfe, upon whom France 
     
     and Britain respectively depended in the contest for 
     
     supremacy on the North American continent. , 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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