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Historic Sites. 



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The " marked stone " shown on the plan is a supposed Indian carving 

 mentioned earlier in this paper. Further, about a mile from the lake 

 is another reputed French settlement called locally French Ridge, (see 

 Map No. 17) where various relics, French and Indian, have been found. 

 Further, according to a resident (Mr. T. E. Smith), "about twelve 

 miles from the mouth of the Oromocto there seems to have been an 

 attempt [by the French] to bridge that river with stones, which are 

 visible to the present time, and what is the most curious thing there 

 are no stones within Ave miles from the place where the attempt was 

 made. " The site of the " French bridge " was marked for me by a 



■Kmneu Creek 



Map No. 17. Compiled by the Author. 



resident (Mr. Leslie Carr), as shown on the accompanying map (Map 

 No. 17), but as Mr. Carr wrongly applies the names "Bass Creek" 

 and " Three-tree creek " to the streams just above, and as Mr. Smith 

 places it at twelve miles from the mouth of the river, it is more likely 

 its correct position is as shown on the separate cut on the Map No. 

 17. There is also a local tradition that the French fought the English 

 on the Oromocto below French Lake, and Mr. Carr has marked the 

 reputed place on the map. This tradition fits in perfectly with a 

 newly-discovered reference to an encounter between French and 

 English described in Sergeant John Burrell's Diary of 1759, recently 



