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ADDITIOXS TO MONOGRAPHS 



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Historic Sites. 



mile from Lakevllle Corner and consisted of eight or ten dwellings. 

 The outlines of those sites were plainly visible a few years ago. The 

 other was in the middle of French Island and was of aboi.t the same 

 number of dwellings, which were disposed in a semi-circle around a 

 well. " This well I have examined carefully and it seems to "have 

 been filled within a few feet of its top by its owners before they 

 fled. " He also says that cannon balls have been picked up on the 

 shores of French Lake, and that he possesses a twelve-pound shot 

 found there many years ago. No record exists to explain the pre- 

 sence here of these shot, but Mr. London says there is an Indian 

 tradition that •' Yinghe" (Col. Church?) 

 fired them at the inhabitants here, 

 while sailing up the river. But the 

 distance from the St. John is beyond 

 the range of the cannon of that day. 

 Mr. London adds that he knows of no 

 other French sites in that vicinity, but 

 in the Crown Land Office there is an 

 early plan which shows some distance 

 up Little River, emptying into Indian 

 Lake) this inscription. — "old chimneys 

 and a high rock," which may indicate 

 French houses. 



Swan Creek. Concerning French relics 

 at thi.s place, Mr. London sends me the 

 following information, illustrated by a 

 sketch map herewith reproduced, (Map 

 No. 20). He lived here in his boyhood 

 and knows the locality well. He says 

 that his father knew a place up the 

 creek, (not known certainly to Mr. 

 London), where the French had a black- 

 smith shop, as shown by coal cinders, 

 old files, pieces of steel, scissors, tongs, 

 etc. Also he found in 1858 the remains 

 of a sunken vessel reputed French, at 

 the place marked on the map. Further, 

 a few years ago Mr. Amasa Coy, of 

 Upper ;Gagetovvn, found half a ton of 

 iron and steel instruments near the place marked "French Relics 

 on the plan. 



Map No. 20. 



272. Coys Lake. Mr. London writes me there was also a French site at the 

 head of Coys Lake said to be well defined at the present time; I have 

 not been able to obtain further information about it. 



272. The Mistake. I have been told by my grandfather that ^e h^c? himself 

 sff-n an old wreck near the head of the Mistake, reputed French, 

 from which many relics have been taken. 



