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paper is really nothing more— are chiefly made up from tlie letters of Brigadier-General Waldo, third in rank 

 among the oflicors of the New England expedition of 1745. AVa'do, it appears, had a claim to large grants of land 

 in Nova Scotia, originally belonging to Sir William Alexander, earl of Stirling. He proposed in 1730 to the Eng- 

 lish government to settle the grant, if his claims were acknowledged — the first settlement to be made "near St. 

 Mary's Bay, which is the nearest good land to the fort of Annapolis (Royal), by which the said settlements and 

 the garrison, in case of any emergency, may be mutually serviceable to each other." The British government, 

 however, never acceded to his projjositions, whit'h would have made him one of those great landlords, called 

 patroons or manorial lords, who for so long a lime occupied so large a portion of the lands of New York. The 

 name has been perpetuated in a tine county ef JNIaine, of which Belfast is the principal town, and the noble Penob- 

 scot Bay is the most picturesque feature. In Drake's "Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast" (pp. 60, 01) 

 there is an account of the Waldo or Muscongus patent, which extended over a good part of this county. (See 

 Williamson's "History of IMaine"). Waldo's daughter was to have marrieil Sir W. Pepperrell's only son, Andrew, 

 but the match never came off, through the indiflerence of the latter, whose eccentric conduct is inexplicable, even 

 after the attempted explanations of his apologist, Parsons (see " Life of Pepperrell," 220-229), who gives an account 

 of the whole atlair. Appleton's ' ' Cyclopa'dia of American Biography " falls into an error when it says both Samuel 

 Waldo and his father Jonathan took part in the Louisbourg expedition. It was the son who was brigadier- 

 general, and the father was never connected with the expedition. (See List of Officers of the Expedition, supra, 

 sec. I"V ; Parson's " Life of Pepperrell, 349, 350). A portrait of Waldo is given in .Josepli Williamson's " Belfast," p. 44. 

 The volume of " Canadian Archives " for 1SS6 (p. cliv, note B) gives a summary of the papers relating to the Waldo 

 claim in Nova Scotia. Mrs. Harrison's references to Louisbourg call for no i^artioular comment, except that she 

 falls into an error in saying that the city and fortress extended "about Jirc miles each way, from north to south 

 and from east to west," since the circumference of the whole place was hardly two miles and a half (See siqini, 

 sec. IL) 



Accounts of the siege of 1758 are to be found in the despatches of Amherst and Boscawen to Pitt, extracts from 

 which were published (see " Nar. and Crit. Hist, of Am." v. 404) as a '' .Journal of the landing of his majesty's 

 forces on the is^land of Cajje Breton, and of the siege and surrender of Louisbourg," a third edition of which was 

 printed in 1758 in Boston. The N. Y. Hist. Society Col. (ISSl) contain " An authentic account of the reduction of 

 Louisbourg in June and July, 1758, by a Spectator " (London, 175S). Entinck in his " General History of the Late 

 War" (London, 1764) used this excellent description without acknowledgment (see Parkman, " Montcalm and Wolfe," 

 ii. 81). Thomas Mante, in his " History of the Late War in North America and the Islands of the AVest Indies,, 

 including the campaigns of 1763 and 1764 against His Majesty's Indian Enemies," (London, 1772) prints the so 

 called otlicial " Journal of Amherst," which- appeared first in the ' London Journal ' and in other periodicals of the 

 time. Mante also gives a very intelligible plan of the siege operations. He was an engineer officer, and was major 

 of a brigade during the campaign of 1764. llis work which contains 18 large well executed maps, principally by 

 Thos. Kitchin, has a high reputation and copies aro now so rare that they bring from §70 to $125 according to tlieir 

 condition ; Quaritch sold a copy in 1801 for the latter sum. The copy in the possession of the jweseut writer belonged 

 to the library of Baron Mulgrave, P. C, who died in 1798, and is complete and unsoiled in every particular. The 

 topography of the country around Louisbourg harbour is remarkably well marked in IMante's plan. The first 

 volume of John Knox's " Historical Journal of the Campaigns for years 1758, 1759, and 1760 &c.," (London, 1760, 

 2 vols.) contains a readable account of the siege, and is especially valuable for the numerous authentic official 

 documents cited. See also J. Montresor's Journal, N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1881). 



Other authorities on the siege cited by Parkman and the editor of the " Nar. and Crit. Hist." are the following : 

 ,' Tlie Life of Major General James Wolfe," by Robert Wright, (London, 1804) which contains much original 

 matter in the shape of Wolfe's correspondence. " Tlie Grenville correspondence " (vol. i, pp. 240-265) and Waljiole's 

 " Memoirs of George the Second " (2nd ed. vol. ill. 134) contain useful material for the historical writer. Parkman 

 refers also to the " Diary of a Captain or Subaltern in the army of Amherst at Louisbourg," found in the garret of 

 an old house at Windsor, Nova Scotia, on an estate belonging in 1760 to Chief Justice Deschamps, and the use of 

 which he owed to the kindness of Mr. George Wiggins of the same place. 



Dr. Francis Parkman's work on " Montcalm and Wolfe " (Boston, 1884, 2 vols.,) already referred to in the fore- 

 going paragraphs is a spirited account of the capture of Louisbourg. The narrative is found in the 19th chapter, 

 vol. 2, and contains 30 pages with an eclectic map, which is very clear though drawn on a small scale. As usual 

 in his works, the author cites at the end of the chapter the principal authorities which he has consulted. 



"A History of Nova Scotia or Acadie,'-' by Beamish Murdoch, Q. C, (Halifax, N. S., 1865-1867, 3 vols.) devotes 

 chapters v and xxiii of the second volume to descriptions of the sieges of 1745 and 1759. This work is valuable 

 as an accurate compilation of original authorities, but it can lay no claim to literary skill or style. The account of 

 the siege of 1758 is taken mainly from Entinck. 



