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been treated fully in the Educational Review, X., 1897, 104. The site of 

 Petit Rochelle is well known locally ; it extended from Officers Brook 

 upwards for some throe miles, and many relics of French occupation 

 have been found here. (Map No. 36.) Cooney states there was a French 

 village at Martins l'oint, near the site of Cami)bellton, and he gives many 

 facts :ind traditions as to French relics found in this region (213-218). 



At the mouth of Jacquet River, and doubtless of other rivers on the 

 North Shore, are small pieces of marsh which seem to have been dyked ; 



Map No. 36. IIistoricai, Map of Restigouche. 



and these dykes are taken locally to be evidence of early Acadian settle- 

 ments. Such dykes, however, are known to geologists to be often the 

 result of purely natural causes (Chalmei-s, Geological Reports, 1895, M, 

 133), and hence do not prove the existence of former settlements unless 

 certainly artificial. 



2. Seioniories. 



An interesting chapter in the history of the Acadian period in New 

 Brunswick is that which relates to the effort of the French Government to 

 settle it uj)on thoSeignioi-ial system. The subject has, however, received but 

 little attention from our historians, no doubt because it was a failure and pro- 

 duced no ellect whatever upon later settlement. Not a single one of the 

 many seigniorial grants made in New Brunswick survived the Acadian 

 period itself, much less did they extend into the later periods, and not a 

 foot of land is held to-day in New Brunswick, nor has been held since 

 1755, by descent from a seigniorial title. This extensive attempt was there- 



