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Historic Sites. 



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271. Emenenic, the winter village of the French on the St. John in 1611-1612 

 mentioned in the Jesuit Relations and elsewhere. (For an account 

 of events there see Raymond's " St. John River," 20, 128; Jesuit Rela- 

 tion, Thwaites' éd., II, 27). We know that it was on an island, and 

 the fact that the Indians to-day call the three islands at the head of 

 the Long Reach Ammenhennik identifies it as on one of them. But 

 hitherto its site has been unknown. In July 1903, in company with 



Map No. 21. 



From Owen's Map op the lower St. John, 1846, x J; 



WITH ADDITIONS. 



Dr. G. U. Hay, I examined the three islands carefully to see if their 

 configuration and local conditions would throw any light upon the 

 question of the site of the village. Fosters (also called Jones Island 

 or Isles of Pines) and Rocky Island connected with it by a bar, seemed 

 to offer very indifferent situations; for a good site for houses, a good 

 landing beach, a spring (here important since the river water is 

 brackish), and a sheltered cove for anchorage, occur nowhere together. 

 But on Catons island, at the western point, there is a fair situation 



