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'Soll about the south end of St. Peters Bay

'The north part is burned woods Ineer the Hillsborough '80” much as at St. Peters / about St Peters Bay V5,}, good for farming ”he “he, News bane”

River they are very good and upon the above in general the woods are burned / on Morrell // and in gen’l burned woods' and Hill River [ie the Pisquid] the soil is excelt' River and In the country 9017' r

/ The woods for the most part burned / near the village of 5 houses there is a grove of cypress trees'

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/ 'The north part is bad land and burned woods / at the Bay of Fortune prity good soil and wood’

Tolerable good ground & timber on the brush / at Mane/I timber good but soil stoney south part/ indifferent on the north coast

almost entirely destroyed by fire' 'North pert burned soil and woods / to the /

'About St. Peters burned woods and small / / / southward much the same as No. 37' /

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'Very good woods where it has

notbeen destroyedbythe fire' /// If? // ’7”/

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‘The same land and woods as in No, 45’

'The same land and woods as in No, 44‘

'About the River of Fortune and the Canying Place mostly ‘ burned wood / in other places pn‘ty good and very feltil soil’

FIGURE.5. A hypothetical reconstruction of the burned area in the north-east of the island at the end of the French period as determined from the township descriptions in the table attached to the 1765 map of Captain Samuel Holland (the descriptions are included above for each township). These descriptions, plus Holland’s general comments on the burned area in his two letters (of March and

October 1765), have been used to re-construct the southern and western boundaries of the burned area.

A = ’the village of 5 houses’.

The ’road’ from the Hillsborough River to St. Peters, and the ’carrying-places’ (i.e. portages) from the Hillsborough River to Tracadie Bay and from St. Peters to Fortune have been copied from Holland's map and are shown as fine lines.