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     La Roque 1752: 
     
    
   
   
    
     ’The land [from 'pointe de l'est' to ’l’étang de 
     
     naufrage’] is a desert owing to a fire, but a short 
     
     distance inland the country is covered with hardwood’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     Franquet 1751: 
     
    
   
   
    
     ’Al/ the woods between the source of the ’n‘viére du 
     
     nord—est’ and the ’havre Saint-Pierre' are burned' 
     
    
   
   
    
     \ ’The point has been reduced 
     
     :\ 'The road [from the 'n‘viére du nord-est’] to 'havre to a wilderness by a fire’ 
     
     \ Saint-Pierre’ cuts through burned woods’ « 
     
    
   
   
    
     {fr/l Duchambon 1743: 
     
     {Ab/M 'The fire at Saint-Pierre [in June 1742]: the x \ 
     
     < \3 large area of the country that the fire suddenly \ Bigot 1742; 
     
    
   
   
    
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     covered [was] due to the speed of the wind’ 'Th e fire [at Saint-Pierre in 1742] spread from 
     
     the woods to their fields and houses’ 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     FIGURE 2. The geographically-specific references to fires and burned areas in the north-east of the island in the 
     
     records of the French period. (The road shown above between the riviére du nord-est and the havre 
     
     Saint-Pierre has been taken from the 1765 map of Samuel Holland (PARO 0,6170).