354 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

Charlotte Town,) “ and the governor of Louisburg furnishes them with a garrison of sixty men.

“ It was from this place we set out in the begin- ning of the month of August, 1752. We ascended the river to the north-east seven leagues, up to its very source, from whence we proceeded to the bar- bour of St Peter’s, after having made a carriage of four leagues across a plain, well cultivated, and abounding in all sorts of grain.” After remaining some days at St Peter’s, he visited the harbours of Fortune, .De la Souris, and Matieu; “ the neigh- bouring lands of which,” he continues, “ are exceed- ing good and proper for culture. We found several sorts of trees, with a prodigious number of foxes, martens, hares, partridges, &c. The rivers abound in fish, and are bordered with pasture lands, which produce exceeding good grass. The inhabitants came over here from Acadia, during the last war, and are about eight and forty in number. After coasting along, we doubled the east point, which we found deserted, because a fire had obliged the inha- bitants to abandon it, in order to go and’settle two leagues farther upon the north side.

“ We continued our course six leagues, until we arrived at the Pool de N aufrage. The coast, though very level, presents the eye with nothing but a coun- try laid waste by fire; and farther on it is covered with woods. We met with but one inhabitant, who told us the lands about the Pool were exceeding good, and easy to cultivate, and that every thing grows there in great plenty. Of this he gave us a demonstration