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Scotch settlers, botli of wliicli are probal)!)' errorn. Mr. Ilaniiay visited 

 the site iii 18G7, and saw there remains of raini)arts, etc., though tlie next 

 year he speaks of the fort as entirely witslu'd away. [Stewart's Quarterly, 

 1., 99, and II., 141]. • 

 B.— Fort Jemseg. This fort was apparently built by Thomas Temple during the 

 Kii<:lisli possession of Acadia in Kl-V.). Jle records having built a trading 

 post lift y miles up the St. John. It wius handed over to the French in 1670, 

 at which time a description of it was prepared (published in IMemorials of 

 the English and French Commissaries,) from which, and after analogy with 

 plans of other forts of the time, I have compiled the accompanying plan 

 [Map No. 19]. Between Ui7i' and KuO it was greatly strengthened by 



Map No. 19, Approximate plan of Fort Jemseg, compiled from a description. 



Siour de Soulanges as related in the grant of the fort to him in that year : 



"II a fait diverses n'parations et augmentations à celui de Gemisik, afin 

 de le rendre k)geabk' et de iléfense, n'y ayant auparavant qu'un petit longe- 

 ment de bois tout ruiné, ent<jur6 seulement de quelques palissades :\ demi- 

 tombées par terre; vn sorte que pour réedcfier le tout, il lui auroit coûté beau- 

 coup, et se verroit encore contraint d'y faire de grandes dépenses pour le 

 remettre en état, A cause de la ruine entière qu'en fait les Ilollandois en 

 le faisant prisonnier dans le dit fort, il y a deux ans." (Memorials, 74S. ) 



l'nlike most forts of the time it was not square, which no doubt was 

 because of the shape of the knoll on which it stood. Its situation is known 



