Clearance along the shore.

Wood for heating.

A trail to St. Peters.

Lots of fallen trees. Ground hemlock

in the beech woods.

A track to Port laJo ye.

Fallen trees.

Forest clearance at St. Peters.

Wood scarce at St. Peters.

as well as woodchips as the removal of the stumps had created by the billions. Using a pick, levelled the land and sowed with peas. [fo|. 174]

Works: Made another field of about the same size for wheat.

Methods: Made a fence with part of the wood that has been cut down, removed the smaller stumps, cleaned up the ground, used a pick on it, levelled it and sowed with wheat. [foL 174]

Works: Cleared the coast to the right and left of the point to the extent of about three quarters of a league.

Methods: Cut up the trees, carry them into a pile with their branches to burn them in a fire.

Use or necessity: To give a free passage for men and animals, make the coast defensible and to destroy the mosquitoes that the woods of this coast would have continually supplied to the point. [fol. 174]

Works: Supplied also the number of cords of wood necessary to keep a very big fire

going in thirteen chimneys night and day and for about seven months of the year. (fol. 174v]

Works: Made a second track from St. Pierre of about eight and a half leagues which avoids the large rivers.

Methods: This track has involved cutting the standing timber and those lying across often in great numbers along a very straight line and the shortest that one could make, from trois Rivieres to St. Pierre with a width of about 10 to 15 feet. It has consisted of removing the tree branches that project into the track so that one can travel easily by horse, and of cutting the ground hemlock that very much clutters up the track in the beechwoods and makes walking difficult without great tiredness.

Use or necessity: a period of about three years will have rotted the stumps,

consolidated the ground and succeeded in destroying the ground hemlock lfol. 175]

Works: Made a similar track from trois Rivieres to Port LaJoye which avoids the rivers and marshes, and goes by the shortest line according to the Government.

Methods: This track is less worked on than the other one in that we opened it up less and we left most of the trees which were found across the track lying on the ground, and which only required that we lift the foot 3 little to get a leg over to the other side.

[fol. 175]

Works: Cleared at the habitation of St. Pierre granted to the Company by the Governor and lntendant about six to 700 paces of land by one hundred to 200 paces in width, cleared this land, uprooted and removed part of the stumps made and sowed a garden of one to two arpents with a fence of branches and stumps.

Methods: It has been necessary to go two leagues into the bay for almost all the wood, those of the habitation consisting of beeches, maples, oaks and very few firs.

[fo|. 175v] [PAC, AC, CHB, Vol. 16, fols. 173-76.]

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