Snow in the The Snow upon the ground and in the woods, is often a surprising depth and no WOOdS- possibility of passing except upon Snowshoes. The Accadians now have recourse to little Cabbins or Huts in the Woods where they are screened from the violence of the , weather and at the same time have the convenience of wood for fuel so near them. The Acad/ans . . . . and the native Here they live upon the Fish which they have cured In the Summer, and other Game fauna. which they frequently kill, as Hares, Partridges, Lynxes or Wild Cats, Otters, Martins or Musk Rats, none of which they refuse to eat as their necessities press them.

1. On the basis of the punctuation, it appears that it was the lynx that occurred in three colour phases. However, it is more likely that the colour phases refer to the fox (such are reported by other recorders), and that either Holland or his transriber has left out a comma after ‘Grey’.

Holland, Samuel (1765) ’P/an of the Island of St. John in the Province of Nova Scotia [with annotations] (dated 19 September 1765). [PEI PARO Acc. 06170. This is a photographic copy (apparently the same size as the original, but sub-divided into a large number of separate sheets) of a hand-drawn copy of the plan made by C. Petticrew, P.R.O. 1931, (verified in the margin by H. P. Biggar as ’a correct copy’ on 24 February 1932).]

Holland ’8 ’p/an’ shows for the whole island the precise boundary between the forest and the land cleared by the French. It also has around its periphery a gridded tab/e listing 65 of the 67 townships and the three royalties, in which information is recorded on each under three columns: ’Oua/ity of the Lands and Woods’, ’C/eared Land and Houses’, and ’Remarks’. ( The two lots that are omitted are the non-coastal lots 66 and 6 7.) On the following pages /have reproduced this table, and have included all comments relevant to the forests, plus also the acreage of cleared land and the number of buildings. The fourth column (’Comments’l contains additional comments of my own.

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