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stoney pasture, much less fitted for a garden. The two cellars at the 

 latter locality no doubt are relics of the first modern settlement of 

 this coast, and have no connection with the little cabin shown on 

 Champlain's map. Second, it is readily possible to identify the point 

 and two little rivulets shown by Champlain on the left of his map, 

 (compare Champlain with my sketch in Map No. 16) ; if this iden- 

 tification be correct, the relative distances mark the upper rather 

 than the lower valley as corresponding to that shown on Champlain. 

 In this case the lower valley is omitted from Champlain, where it 

 should occur about in the cove just east of the cabin and letter N. 

 In comparing however the outline of the coast it must be remembered 

 that this shore has sunk several feet, probably five or six, since the 

 time of Champlain, allowing the lower parts of the upland to be 

 washed away and greatly altering the configuration of the shores. 

 If now we suppose that a considerable section of the low upland just 

 beside the upper valley has thus been removed, it would make the 

 configuration agree much more closely with the map of Champlain. 

 This would bring the Gardens in part upon the present beach as 

 shown on the map, and I believe such was their true position. 



266. St. Aubin. The exact site of St. Aubin's residence, (and consequently 

 the limits of his seigniory) is not known. The fact however, that his 

 residence was at Passamaquoddy and that the name Passamaquoddy 

 (see Place-nomenclature, earlier) applied originally only to the waters 

 between Campobello, Deer Island and Moose Island (or Sewards Neck) 

 would shew that it was in that vicinity, and not at St. Andrews or 

 elsewhere on the Inner Bay. Hence it was likely at Campobello 

 or Indian Island.' 



266. A statement made by James Boyd in 1763 (Kilby's " Eastport and Pas- 

 samaquoddy, " 106) seems to imply that French works existed on 

 Digdeguash Island. But I have found no other reference to them. 



In the same work, page 138, there are references to possible 

 early French settlement at Shackford's cove near Eastport probably 

 at the place so marked on the D. Owen map. 



The remains of French settlement on Indian Island are mentioned 

 by Lorimer in his " History of the Islands and Islets of the Bay of 

 Fundy, " 74. 



The supposition that Gourdan and St Aubin were the same person 

 is no doubt incorrect, since there was a Gourdan at this time in 

 Acadia or Canada. 



268. The traditional breastwork at Sandy Point is fully described in the 

 Courier series, XXX, note. 



An article in Scribners Monthly, XV, 449, (also in " Sport with 

 Gun and Rod," published by the same company. Century Co., 172), 

 mentions and figures a supposed old blockhouse somewhere in the 

 woods of Charlotte Country, without doubt simply an old lumber- 

 camp. 



