THE FIRST SUBMARINE CABLE 29 Darnley Basin —after the Duke of Richmond , Earl of Darney. Aylesbury—after the Duke of Richmond 's wife. As for Bideford River —its original name was Goodwood. And was known as . The most complete family on the Island! 7 Across a stretch of water from Rice Point lies St. Peter 's Island. It seems to be a lonely, barren little island. I walked slowly around it and felt quite convinced that nothing had happened, was happening, or ever would happen on those few acres. But— something did! Nearly two hundred years ago, St. Peter 's Island was the scene of a tragedy. Crops had been destroyed three years in succession—first by field mice, then by locusts, and finally by scald. The people were starving. "Witchcraft," whispered the Indians. "St. Ger- maine, whom they call ' Perigord,' is to blame. Let us kill him, and then the crops will nourish." So they killed Perigord and buried him on He de Comte St. Pierre. Whether they had removed the cause of the trouble or not is doubtful—but the next year's crop nourished! To-day there is no sign of the lonely grave ... or of field mice epidemics . or of locusts . . . How different it is with Holland Cove . Every one there knows where the "spot in the woods near the seashore" is, which was "properly situated for making astronomical observations." Here dwelt for nearly two years the first surveyor-general of Canada . He