One year later, a tour of inspection of the same region was under¬ taken by le Sieur de la Roque, King's Surveyor, by order of le comte de Raymond, the governor of Isles Royale and St. Jean. De la Roque was actually taking a census of the two Islands, and his report is our best source of information about the settlers. Among the farmers enumerated was Jean Baptiste Rassicot whose land was located on the east side of the Pisquid River . His livestock con¬ sisted of one ox, one sow and one pig. He had made a clearing sufficient for sowing ten bushels of seed, of which, at that point, he had sown four. Another settler, Francois Hache Galland, had been in the country two years. He was married to Francois Olivier , and the young couple had a daughter, Marie Auzitte. In livestock they had two oxen, two cows, one ewe, nine fowl and one cow in calf. They had made a clearing on their land and had sown seven bushels of wheat. Neither Franquet nor De la Roque tells us much about the social life of this gentle, frugal people. Hardships there were in plenty. An un¬ identified traveller in 1752 tells of such intensely cold winters that if one stirred out in the frost, he was in danger of perishing in a quarter of an hour. Flies and mosquitoes are mentioned as being a great inconvenience in summer. "The abominable insects," the writer declares, "darken the air and fasten themselves on the leaves of the trees." There was also the ever-present threat of starvation due to crop failure. Drought, plagues of locusts and the depradations of field mice periodically wrecked such havoc in the fields that the settlers were forced to subsist on shell fish for months at a time. Calamities, however, it should be noted, make news and are much more likely to be recorded than the good times which are often passed over in silence. The most dire calamity of all, nonetheless, was visited upon the Acadian settlements on Isle St. Jean after the British conquest of Louis- burg in 1758. After the fortress fell, Lord Rollo was given the task of subduing the remaining French dependencies. When his considerable fleet approached what is now , the terrified settlers fled to Savage Harbour where they entered into consultation with the people of that locality. Disheartened by reports of the fall of Port La Joie ( Charlotte - town), the council decided upon capitulation. When they surrendered, the Acadians were required to take the oath of allegiance to the British Crown. This they declined to do, fearing that it contained something hostile to their religion and that it might bind them to military service against their own people in Quebec . Rejection of the British conditions meant expulsion, and, within a short time, while plumes of smoke rose from their ravaged homes, the settlers gathered at the place of embarkation for the last sad voyage down the Hillsborough . According to tradition the gathering place was Carra Point, or Cart Point, where their carts, for which they had no further use, were left to moulder away under the Island sunshine. For many years traces of these first settlers kept coming to light. The entire outfit of a forge was found at Allisary in the hollow between the farms presently owned by Pius MacDonald and Bruce Pigot . At the time, the equipment was left in the blacksmith shop which belonged to the late Robert MacKenzie . The shop was torn down a number of years ago, and nothing is known of the present location of these valuable arti¬ facts. As a youth, the late Lane Pigot , helping clear a field on his father's farm, came upon the foundations of a large building which was believed —3—