6 THE BARTIBOGUE FORT. 



had one and a half miles ahead of u.s we had hetter have seine 

 crackers ani cheese to keep up steam. 



After making a slight repast we started again. The road now 

 made a sharp turn to the right, and we stum))led down a steep 

 hill, and into the camp before we knew it, and wlien we thought 

 we had still over a mile to go. We were most hospitably received 

 and entertained with a good supper, pipes, yarns, and the Boss's 

 lied. 



What struck me forcibly on this day's tramp was the absence 

 of life on our route. We saw only one chickadee, and one par- 

 tridge, which we shot, and heard another after dark . 



We turnv?d out at 5:30 a. m. on the 24th. There are 26 men 

 in this camp, and thev require to get away so as to be or» the 

 ground for work at daybreak, or rather as soon as they can see. 



Alter the men had got away we breakfasted and started, going 

 Mrst for one quarter of a mile in an easterly direction, and then 

 turning into a tote road (road vvheie they drag logs along the 

 ground to the yard). We crossed the Ba,rtibogue River on a 

 pole bridge, went up a vei-y steep bank, 140 or 150 ft. high, and 

 then followed the tote road, winding in and out in an easterly 

 direction gem'rally, for perhaps two miles to the "fort", which is 

 about 150 or 200 yards from the river, at the top of its bank slope. 



The trees around ai'e of large size, as there has not been an axe 

 aujong them since the Miramichi fire of 1825. We measured one 

 white pine at two feet from tlie ground. It was six feet in circum- 

 ference. Wo found s])ruce, pine, fir, poplar, &c. The fire swept 

 this ground clean, and all this growth has sprung U]> since that 

 time. 



I will now try to tlescribe the "fort", and first take my stand 

 at the southwest corner (»f the enclo)-.ur«\ 



On the south side of this enclosure is a wall, or rather the re- 

 mains of an old wall, two or three feet high and 278 feet long, 

 with the remains of an old -ellar about lialf way down its length, 

 but on the in.side of it. that is, within the enclosure. From tin- 

 place where we stand there is another wall 72 ft. long and parallel 



