88 TOURING QUEBEC AND THE MARITIMES

feasts, fétes and games, reproducing in this wilderness the gay life of Paris.

Following the main pathway through the park, we first observed the shaft raised to the memory of Lieut.- General Timothé Pierre du Guast, Sieur de Monts, the pioneer of civilization in the New World. This monument set as though de Monts were there himself to receive the visitors, was placed by the Canadian Government in 1904, the tercentenary of the discovery and exploration of the Annapolis River, and of the founding of the first white settlement in North America—north of the Gulf of Mex-- ico. The motto thereon reads “Genus Immortale Manet”-- “The immortal line in sure succession reigns.”

Before reaching de Mont’s monument, we passed be- tween two old field guns, used in the northwest Rebel- lion of 1885.

Farther along the path we came to a sundial of New Hampshire granite, erected in 1918 in memory of George Vaughan, who served as a volunteer under General Francis Nicholson, in the expedition for the reduction of Port Royal, in the ninth year of the reign of Queen Anne, 1710', and who was afterwards—1715-1717—Lieut.-Governor of his native colony of New Hampshire. The motto on the dial proper 'is the Scottish proverb “Time tries a’.”

Following the path for a short distance, we reached a point from which we looked down over the embankment on the ruins of the second fort of Port .Royal, built about 1635, and demolished sixty years later to make way for what is now called “Fort Anne.” We retraced our steps and crossed the bridge leading to the inner fort. On the left we saw the Bastion Dauphin, which at the time of the fort’s capture, contained a bakehouse, Smith’s forge and a platform for cannon. After the evacuation of 1710,

the bakehouse and forge were removed to make way for