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B. Forts. 



Fort Meductic was an Indian rather than a French fort, though siinie- 

 times spoken of as French. Its site has already been discussed. 

 A. — Fort Nashwaak (Fort St. Joseph). This fort, prominent in its time, was 

 built b}- Yillebon in 1692, withstood a siege by the English in 1696, and was 

 abandoned in 1700. There is no doubt as to its site ; it stood in the upper 

 angle between the Nashwaak and the St. John, close to the water, on high 



Map No. 18. Plan of Fort Nashw^aak (Fort St. Joseph), 

 From a plan of 1692 in the Archives de la Marine, Paris ; x /j. 



intervale now washed away, so that the site of the fort was over what is now 

 the gravel beach. Its ground plan is shown very clearly on the accom- 

 panying outline of a plan from the Paris archives' []Map No. 18], and its 

 situation on the Morris 1765 map [:Map No. 17]. Cadillac in 1692 speaks of 

 this as a ]\Iicmac fort, and it has been claimed that it was built by early 



1 A bird's eye view, not here reproduced, accompanies the ground plan. 



