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just below the present Rye's Corner. Just above it the road from Beausé- 

 jour to Beaubassin crosses the head of AuLac River [see map No. 24.] 



D. — Tintemarre Franquet calls this a large village with a missionary, and it is 

 marked upon all of the maps of the time. The Mante map shows this village 

 just above a considerable branch of the Tantramar River towards the west ; 

 hence it must have stood above the branch coming from the present Morice's 

 Millpond, along the margin of the upland between the Millpond and the 

 Jolicure Road, and perhaps somewhat above this. Mr. Milner places it 

 about Four Corners, and states that the chapel stood on the present site 

 of the Beulah, with which residents agree. This church stands on the 

 north-east of the four corners. Locally there is said to have been here a 

 French burial ground also. 



In some records and on some maps a village. Près des Bourques, is men- 

 tioned, though Franquet does not refer to it, perhaps because it was estab- 

 lished after his time. The French map shows its situation very clearly, as 

 on the margin of the upland near Sackville not far north of the present 

 highway road to Amherst. Mr. Milner places it on the farm of the late 

 Philip Palmer. On Morice's Brook, it is said locally, were formerly remains 

 of a French settlement, comprising ten or twelve families. 



E.— La Coupe. This village is marked on no map that I have seen and I know of 

 no record that definitely locates its site. It must have been near the La 

 Coup river, which is a branch of the Aulac, striking off to the westward just 

 south of the extremity of Jolicure ridge. Considering the very favourable 

 location of the extremity of the Jolicure ridge for a settlement, it is probable 

 that here was its site. 



F.— Baie Verte. The old maps show clearly that this village stood precisely on 

 the site of the present village of that name, though there were other houses 

 scattered about in that vicinitj-, and a few near Fort. Gaspereau. Alex. IVIonro 

 states : "At Baie Verte, near the residence of Capt. Weeks, the French had 

 an establishment of mills ; hence the name. Mill Creek, was given to the 

 stream. Around this spot they settled, and here too was their graveyard. ' ' 

 The other villages mentioned by Franquet and on the maps of the 

 time, including another village at Weschkok, LaButte, Les Planches, Beau- 

 bassin, etc., were in Nova Scotia, or as Franquet puts it, in Acadia ; but their 

 identification is not within the scope of the present paper. 



Montresor's map of 1768 marks a " Richart " between West Coup and 

 Pintamat villages, hence in the position of Prés des Bourques. I have no 

 other infonnation upon such a place. 



G.— Memramcook. I have no data for settling the exact site of the pre-expulsion 

 settlement. Mante's map places it on the west side not far from the mouth ; 

 which is also the case with the French plan, which, however, also places a 

 few houses on the east bank. M. Placide Gaudet, however, writes me that 

 ancient aboideaux have been found near the College, which possibly belonged 

 to pre-expulsion settlers. It is very likely that these were on the upland 

 near the great marshes, just below the present Rockland Bridge. Local 

 tradition states that some ten families lived in pre-expulsion times on 

 Brownell Brook, two miles above Dorchester, and remains of their houses 

 could formerly be seen ; and others lived on the front of the " Chapman 

 Farm." 



H.— Petitcodiac. For these settlements also we have few data. Rameau gives an 

 account of its first settlement by Blanchard in 1698, but we have no facts 



