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was with Church on his expeditions east, and as Fort Nashwaak is not shown, this prob- 

 ably represents the region before the siege of the latter by the English in 1696, and before 

 Villebou's fort was built at the mouth of the river. The rough sketch of St. John Har- 

 bour is what chiefly interests us at present, and there we can easily recognize Partridge 

 Island, the Falls, the wooden fort, well known to have stood at the mouth of the Nerepis, 

 and the village at Indiantowu, here dignified by the name of St. Johns Towne. Then 

 we see two forts, of which that on the east side is the larger. This is a poiut of much 

 importance, since it shows the larger of the ruins of the forts to have been on the east 

 side. As La Tour's was without doubt a larger fort than Charnisay's,' and as Villebon's 

 fort is shown by his own letters to have been simply the old fort in Carleton repaired, 

 this map helps to increase the probability that Fort Jja Tour stood on the east side. 



Map No 5 — Another map of high authority, and great accuracy for its time, is 

 Carle du Canada, ou de la Nouvelle France. Par Guillatcine de Vlsle, Paris, 1*703. It also 

 places Fort La Tour on the east side, as do Moll's maps of 1715-1*720. A number of other 

 maps could be mentioned which do likewise, but, as they obviously follow one or the 

 other of these we have mentioned, their testimony is of slight value. 



Transition Maps. — We now come to a series of maps upon which the name Fort La 

 Tour does not appear at all, though forts are marked either upon one or both sides of the 

 harbour, and called either simply "fort," or else "French fort," or even Fort St. Jean. 

 Such are those of Popple of 1*733, Belliu of 1744, Mitchell and Jeffery's of 1755 and many 

 others. This is the period in which the real site of the fort has become confused by the 

 fact of others having been built upon its site, and also upon the site of Charnisay's, and 

 the best map-makers had dropped the name La Tour altogether. But in 1755 there 

 appeared two maps, made by two ot the greatest of French cartographers, Bellin and 



No. 5. — Bellin, 17.55. 



No. 6. — D'Aiiville, 17.55- 



d'Anville. Both of these men are renowned for their accuracy iu matters of detail ; they 

 endeavoured to reject all names for which there was not good authority, and to restore all 

 which were authentic. Both restored " Fort La Tour," and both for reasons we do not 

 understand, and which indeed do not greatly concern our present purpose, placed it upon 

 the west side of the harbour, at Old Fort Poiut, iu Carleton,- as is most clearly shown 

 upon the annexed sketches (Nos. 5 and 6). Very many later maps follow them exactly, 

 but I find none earlier that give this feature. Now even had we no other evidence upon 

 this point, the testimony of these two maps, made so long after the destruction of Fort La 



' As Mr. Hannay points out, two or three references to the Carleton fort speak of its small size. 

 - Bellin, in his description of his 1755 map, says, p. 41 : " Sur la Pointe occidentale il y a un petit fort nommé 

 Fort La Tour." In 1 755 then he clearly thought Fort La Tour had stood upon the west side. 



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