Field mice. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Beech mast. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A cedar log 
     
     shipped. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tree species at 
     
     Malpeque Bay. 
     
    
   
   
    
     A cedar wood 
     
     between 
     
     Cascumpec and 
     
     Egmont Bays. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Hemlock on the 
     
     portage to 
     
     Bedeque Bay. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Cape Traverse. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tryon River. 
     
    
   
   
    
     to the present time. [p. 151] 
     
     field mice, these animals ressemble in {shape, the mice} found in the rural districts 
     
     of France, especially in Champagne, where they store up, at a depth of two or three 
     
     feet in the earth, grain for their comfortable subsistence, and then go to sleep for six 
     
     months of the year. It is only in this foresight that the field mice of this country do 
     
     not ressemble those of the old land, for {as soon as} they have devoured everything 
     
     they can find to their taste in the country, they throw themselves into the water 
     
     where they are drowned in such prodigious numbers [usually every year] when 
     
     beech nuts go plentiful, [there is a plague] of field mice {The 7906 translation is 
     
     wrong; it should be: usually each year when there is beech mast, the following year 
     
     you are nearly sure to get field mice.} [pp. 151-152] 
     
    
   
   
    
     On the shore of the harbour of Macpec, a vein of clay has been discovered of {a} 
     
     quality required for making bricks A peck has been placed on board a vessel 
     
     together with a log of cedar to be carried to Louisbourg, to the address of Monsieur 
     
     Pichon, secretary to Monsieur le Comte de Raymond. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The timber in the environs of {should be: the woods around} the harbour of Macpec 
     
     as well as its rivers may be described as {should be: are} very fine, and {in general 
     
     there are some of all kinds} such as pine, spruce, maple, red maple, black birch {i.e. 
     
     yellow birch}, beech, ash, oak, white birch, cedar &c. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Between the harbour of Cascampec, situated on the north coast, six leagues from 
     
     Macpec and seven leagues from Pointe du Ouest [West Point] and Grand Ance 
     
     [Egmont Bay] situated on the south side of the Isle Saint-Jean at a distance of _ 
     
     [blank space] leagues from Pointe du Guest and __ {blank space] leagues from the 
     
     harbour of Bedec, is a great cedar grove which is estimated to be two to three 
     
     leagues in circumference and in which there are {commonly} cedars of four feet in 
     
     diameter and two toises {the French original has ’brasses’} and a half in 
     
    
   
   
    
     circumference. ... [p. 152] 
     
    
   
   
    
     We left the harbour of Macpec in a canoe, crossed the three leagues of the bay and 
     
     disembarked in a small stream. This streamlet, which is of little account, is 
     
     maintained by the filtration of the waters from the surrounding lands which are peaty 
     
     and marshy. From the banks of this stream a road was taken running one league to 
     
     the south. It is practicable for carts which can cross from one bay to the other {i.e. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Malpeque and Bedeque Bays]. The lands are covered with all kinds of different 
     
     woods, but the predominant is the hemlock. [p. 159] 
     
    
   
   
    
     We left Riv/ere de la Traverse [Cape Traverse River] on the 31 st of August and took 
     
     the route for Riviére des Blonds [Tryon River], following the coast all the way to the 
     
     mouth of Riv/ere des Blonds. It is estimated that from the mouth of one river to that 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the other is three leagues. In this distance nothing remarkable was met with. The 
     
     lands are covered with all kinds of mixed timber [p. 162] 
     
    
   
   
    
     Riviére des Blonds runs four leagues into the land to the north. the lands that have 
     
     been cleared promise well and the rest are covered with all descriptions of wood fit 
     
     for construction purposes. [p. 162] 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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