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there, according to Franquet, and it is shown on his plan [Map 26]. Butte 

 à Charles was but 120 toises from Fort Beauséjour, and parallel. The Butte 

 Amirande was a half league away, and was perhaps the hill where St. Mark's 

 Church now stands, though it may have been a gravel hill nearer the marsh.i 

 Bloody Bridge. " This place took its name from an event thus described by Mr. 

 ]\Iilner : " A more tragic affair occurred earlier in the year [1759] when a 

 sergeant and three men of the Provincial Rangers and seven soldiers of the 

 46th Regiment then at the fort went out to cut w^ood. They were ambus- 

 caded at a place called Bloody Bridge, 

 and five of them were scalped and 

 stripped." 



Its site is well known and marked 

 on Map No. 24. The earthen abut- 

 ments of the old bridge on which the 

 old French road crossed the small 

 stream here flowing into the'Aulac are 

 still to be seen. 



Another locality of similar interest 

 is known locally, — a place at the 

 southern end of Jolicure, where Lieut. 

 Dickson and several soldiers were 

 ambuscaded by the Indians in 1757, 

 the men slain and Dickson carried off 

 a captive to Quebec. 

 Portage Hill. This is marked on the Fran- 

 quet map [Map ;No. 26], and men- 

 tioned by him in his report as " Butte 

 du Portage." He states there were 

 two houses there, and a storehouse 

 for the reception of goods in transit by 

 the portage route from Beauséjour to 

 Baie Verte. The position of this hill 

 is well known ; it is still called Portage 

 Hill, and the road passes over it just 

 to the eastward of Portage Bridge. 

 [See Map No. 24. ] On the very top of 

 this hill, just to the northward of the 

 highway road, is an excavation like a 

 large cellar, overgrown with bushes, 

 which is possibly the cellar of the store- 

 house, and residents state there were 

 other cellars on the south side of the 

 road, a little farther to the east. Here 

 the portage began from the headwaters 

 of the Misseguash to Baie Verte, as 

 already described. 



Old French dykes are known in 

 several places, particularly on the 

 Aulac, where they have been ren- 



Map No. 27. Surroundings of 

 Pont À Buot, by Franquet, 

 1752. From the Ottawa copy of 

 the original in Paris ; x 1. 



A. 

 B. 



Logement du Commandant. 

 Cazernes pour le détachement. 



1 These buttes are mostly rounded gravel hills (geologically "drumlins") extending along the 

 BOutheastern side of the Port Cumberland Ridge. They would form ideal sites for the houses of the 

 marsh farms. 



