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I have not been able to locate them. Mr. Howe speaks of one at Sussex 

 Vale, but this would be greatly out of line. I have been told that Ben 

 Lomond was one of these hills, and also that one of the hills near Quaco 

 Head was thus used, and there is a possibility that Porcupine Mountain, 

 near Mount Theobald, was one of them. Above St. John, the first 

 on the river was just back of Milkish. It is well known locally, and is 

 called "Telegraph Hill." The next was at "Telegraph Hill," below 

 Spoon Island, the hill on whose slope stands the old battery and block- 

 house previously mentioned (pp. 275 and 346). Between these points 

 there must have been at least one station, which was very probably on 

 Bald Mountain, on the Kings and Queens boundary, but I am not sure 

 of this. Nor can I find any other station above on the river. Our histories 

 aresilent as to this system and whether it ever came into use. Doubtless 

 in the military records in England a full account of it is to be found. 



Shortly after the settlement of the Loyalists, several schools for the 

 education of the Indians were established in New Brunswick by the 

 " Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England and the 

 parts adjacent in America." The principal of these were near Woodstock, 

 at Shefiield, and at Sussex, but there were others at Fredericton, Westfield 

 and Miramichi. Their work was not successful, and they were closed 

 one after another, until onl}^ that at Sussex, commonly known as the Old 

 Indian College, remained, and it finally ceased to exist in 1826. A full 

 account of these schools is given by Eev. W. O. Eaymond in his " New 

 Brunswick Schools of the Olden Time," in the "Educational Eeview," 

 1893, vol. vi, 192, 211, 231, and vol. vii, 1, 23, and by Mr. Allison in his 

 "Eev. OUver Arnold." According to Mr. Raymond (in article 68 of his 

 series in the "Woodstock Dispatch," 1895) the school near Woodstock 

 stood in all probability on Meductic Flat, a little below the Old Fort (see 

 page 225). The site of that at Sheffield is unknown to me. The site of 

 the building at Sussex is described by Allison as " on the northeast corner 

 of the lot on which Trinity Church is now located, and by the small 

 gate leading to that building." It is also located exactly (as the " Indian 

 College ") on a manuscript map of St. John and Kings counties in the 

 Crown Land Office. 



