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St. John River, " 118, though as Mr. Raymond points out, this battery , 

 was more likely at Nid d'Aigle above the Belleisle (Historic Sites, 275). 

 It is possible that a French post was established on the St. John 

 in 1749 at a location suggested in an article in the " Gentleman's 

 Magazine, " July 1750, 295. After mentioning the well-known exped- 

 ition of Capt. Rous to the St. John in the Albany sloop of war (des- 

 cribed in Murdoch's Nova Scotia, II, 153) it adds, — " on his return 

 we found that the French had attempted nothing near the mouth of 

 the river; but that they were about to secure themselves at some 

 considerable distance from it, at a place the French Governor claimed 

 as the southern boundary of Canada or New France. This being 

 in a country inhabited by Indians, and the navigation of the rivers 

 being unknown to most of the English, nothing further could then be 

 done. " The southern boundary of New France here mentioned is 

 no doubt that explained in the Boundaries Monograph page 216; 

 it was the line drawn through about 46° on the D'Anville map of 

 1746 which would cross the St. John near Fredericton. Hence the 



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post to be established would probably have been St. Anns, though 

 it may have been much lower, perhaps at the Nid d'Aigle or Etablisse- 

 ment François at the Narrows above the Belleisle. (Compare page 275 

 of Historic Sites Monograph). It could not, however, have originated 

 this post, since it is marked on Bellin's Map of 1744. 



276C. Fort Nerepis...A reference in Casgrain's edition of the Journal de 

 Marquis de Montcalm (337) seems to show that this fort was called 

 Sainte-Anne. He speaks of it as a poor little fort burnt by Bois- 

 hébert rather than to allow it to fall into the hands of the English. 



282. By an old resident of Salisbury I have been told that the stream just 

 above Salisbury is called French's Creek, (Map No. 24) and that it 

 was settled around its mouth by the French. I have examined the 

 site; it seems a very likely situation for such a settlement, but I could 

 find no evidence for it. 



