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(to-day Barachois), " separated from the sea by a beautiful 

 tongue of land, which, by the wonderful charm it gives to 

 this place, renders it a very agreeable abode." 



This Monsieur Denys was Pierre Denys, Sieur de la 

 Ronde, son of Simon Denys, who was a brother of Nicholas, 

 to whom so much space has been already devoted. Pierre had 

 a son, Father Joseph Denys, who became a priest. 1 Pierre 

 himself was born at Tours, in 1631, and came to Quebec with 

 his father while still young. It appears that in 1672, in com- 

 pany with Maistre Charles Bazire, Receiver General of the 

 King's dues, and Charles Aubert, Sr. de la Chesnaye, he 

 formed a partnership to establish a fishery, and obtained 

 from Intendant Talon, a grant of the coasts, a league in depth 

 from a league south of Isle Perce, to half a league within 

 the Bay of Gaspe. 



MORE ABOUT THE PERCE FISHERY. 



Dr. Ganong, from whom the details in the preceding par- 

 agraph have been borrowed, has had access, through Mr. H. 

 P. Biggar, to a series of papers, still unpublished, in th>3 

 Clairambault Collection in the Bibliotheque Nationale in 

 Paris. From him, therefore, 2 we quote the following further 

 story of the Perce fishery of the fourth quarter of the seven- 

 teenth century, in his own words: 



; 'The company having expended large sums in improve- 

 ments, and having carried on the fishery as agreed, this grant 

 was confirmed, as that of the Seigneurie of Isle Percee with 

 an apportionment of the respective shares of the proprietors, 

 by the Intendant du Chesneau on November 2, 1676. The 

 grant fell within the lands formerly ceded to Nicolas Denys, 

 who protested against it; but the protest was in vain, since 

 Denys' own grant was already in fact, if not in form, forfeit 

 for non-fulfilment of its conditions. From the beginning, 



1 Further details of the family are given in his Memorial of 

 his family, by Forsythe de Fronsac. Boston, 1903. 



2 From his note on pages 77, 78, and 79, to "The New Relation 

 of Gaspesia" (Le Clercq), published by the Champlain Society. 



