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Mistoric Sites. 



Indian burial grounds, the Crosses being planted on their consecrated 

 grounds. All of the localities here mentioned will be found located 

 upon an historical map accompanying an article on the History of 

 Pokemouche which is expected to appear in the Magazine " Acadien- 

 sis." St. John, in October 1906. 



232. Money Island (or Isle au Trésor). This very striking island, at one 



time the site of a French settlement (see later under the French 

 period), has been within the memory of men now living a great resort 

 of the Indians, who called it as I have been told by an old resident 

 of Miscou, Cache, or " hiding-place " island, a name recalling that given 

 by the Passamaquoddies to St Croix, or Dochet, Island (These Trans. 

 "VIII, ii, 1902, 147) I have been told by Mr. Andrew Wilson of Miscou 

 that he has seen over one hundred families of Indians encamped 

 here (obtaining their water from the barrens near by) while engaged 

 in hunting seals, which formerly resorted in great numbers to the 

 gully near by. 



Indian Point, Miscou. This is said locally to have been a camp- 

 ing-ground of some importance. It is said there was also another 

 camping-ground in the cove on the east side of Muddy Brook near 

 the houses at Wilsons. 



232F. Caraquet. A very important Indian camping ground, the most import- 

 ant in this vicinity, formerly existed on the fine point (Brideau Point) 

 now occupied by the establishment of the Robin Colles Co., as I have 

 been informed independently by two of the best-informed old residents 

 of Gloucester County. The site is an admirable one, the best in this 

 region, and its value is increased by the never-failing little brook, 

 (Chenards Brook), which here empties into the salt water. 



233. The Indian village of Restigouche is no doubt that shown on the map 



of 1663 in Winsor's America, IV, 148. 



I have been told by Mr. D. Ferguson of Chatham formerly of 

 Athol House, Restigouche, who knows the Indians well, that there 

 was formerly a camping-ground at the mouth of Upsalquitch, one 

 on the point at Campbellton, one at Point Le Nim, one at Dal- 

 housie and one at New Mills. 



Old plans show an Indian Lake on the head of the Popelogan 

 branch of Upsalquitch; a brook at the head of the Northwest 

 Branch of Upsalquitch is called by the lumbermen Indian Brook, 

 and there is a small Indian Brook just above Bolands Brook. 



233. A very important work on the ancient Portage Eoute& ot 

 America, tracing their influence upon the course of local history, is A., 

 a. Hulberfs "Historic Highways of America," Vol. 7 (Cleveland 

 1903). 



23-1:. It is very probable that most of the Indian por+ages follow 

 ancient game-trails. I have myself been privileged to see, among the 

 remote waters of New Brunswick still unvisited by sportsmen and 

 lumbermen, the fine game trails, forming deeply-worn paths, which the 



