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Miticuii." TIk'R' imi.st be some error in the latter statement, for Enaud, who 

 was hving here in 1080, is returned by tlie Census as 35 years old, and the 

 Miscou Mission was abandoned about 1002. Creuxius' map of 1000 places 

 the settlement west of the Nepisiguit, but tliis probaljly has little significance. 



F.— Nicolas Dcnys' Habitation at Nepisiguit. Denys, in his work of 1672, 

 thus wiiics : •• Men haljiiatioii dt- .W-pigiguit est sur le bord de ce bassin ; à 

 un lieuë A la droit de son entrée de basse mer un canot n'en sçauroit 

 approcher: c'est où j'ay esté obligé de me retirer après l'incendie de mon 

 Fort de saint Pierre en l'Isle du Cap Breton. !Ma maison y est flanquée de 

 quatres petits bastions avec une palissade dont les pieux sont de dix-huits 



pieds de luuit, avec six pieces de canon en batteries j'y ay un grand 



jardin"* This description placing his habitation on the border of the 



basin a league from .the entrance on the right, with great shallows in front, 

 would locate it on Ferguson's point exactly where tradition places it (See 

 Map No. 35). Here many relics of early occupation have been found, 

 cannon balls, gun locks, skeletons (near by), and even quarried stone. The 

 spot where the latter occurred w:vs on the point in a place now washed by 

 the highest tides, and it is probable that here was the habitation and that 

 this site, like so many settlement and fort sites in the province, has been 

 much altered by the action of the waves, allowed by a slow sinking of the 

 coast, which is now going on. Old willow trees on the point are said by 

 tradition to mark the graves of priests and a French admiral. 



G. — Enault's Settlement. A number of traditions of Esnault (Enault or Enaud) 

 arc given by Cooney, which are probably fairly trustworthy, except as to dates. 

 The census of 1()8() returns Enaud as living at Nepisiguit. Cooney says that 

 he lived at Abshaboo or Coal Point, at the mouth of the Nepisiguit, where 

 Packard's hotel is, and that he had his principal establishment where Mr. 

 Deblois has his. Coal Point is a corruption of Goold's Point,'' by which the 

 high point on the west side of the mouth of the Nepisiguit is known on 

 many early plans. Packard's Hotel, a stone building, still stands at the 

 corner of iilack and St. Patrick streets in Bathurst, while DeBlois' estab- 

 lishment was near by on Gayton's wharf, near the foot of St. Patrick 

 street.' Certainly this would seem to be the most favourable place 

 around the harbour for a trading establishment ; it is on high land at the 

 mouth of a river much used by the Indians as a highway to the hunting 

 grounds of the interior, and as a through route of travel to other rivers. If 

 Enaud, or a predecessor* wius in possession of this point when Denys 

 arrived, it would explain why Denys chose what seems to us in all ways the 

 much less favourable situation at Fei^uson's Point. Cooney states also that 

 Enaud had a large grist mill on the stream running through the mareh now 

 owned by Mr. Deblois, which stream, as Dr. Duncan tells me) is that now 



LeCltTc (C4) speaking of Denys' habitation as he saw it in 107,'), Bays " L'Habitation de Monsieur 



Denys (jui fitoit tr68 bion logo, sur lo bord d'un bassin vulgairement appelle la l'otite riviere, 



8Ppar6 de la mer par un boUo langue do terre, iiui par l'agrément merveilleux qu'elle donne à ce lieu 

 lo rend un séjour fort agreeable." This mention of Little River might lead one to suppose it wa» on 

 the border of the present river of that name, west and southwest of Bathurst, but sueh a supposition 

 would by no moans fit with the other facts we have. It is just possible the Teteagouche was tho 

 Petite Uivierc at that time. 



'^ Accidentiilly missiiollod (louliV.i on Map No. S."). 



3 For these facts I am indebted to Dr. O. M. Duncan, of Bathurst. 



♦ It is possible there were two men of this name at Ne|iisiguit, father and son. Cooney mentions- 

 Jean Jacques Enaud, while I'hillipes Ksnault, Sieur de Barbaucunnes, is mentioned by LeClercq, and ho 

 is mentioned as receiving a grant at I'okenioucho in I(iU3. 



