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adventures of the Catholic French roused all Puritan New England in 

 a crusade to possess them. Were these seas ovrs, we should soon 

 prove the truth of this remark. Could the descendants of those who 

 first won Louishourg for its present nominal owners, settle amid its 

 ruins, the few fishers' huts that serve to mark its site would disappear, 

 and a thrifty, well-built town take their place. The harbor is one of 

 the best on the eastern coast, and the situation such as to render access 

 to the fishing grounds in the waters of the St. Lawrence easy. In a 

 word, distant, lone, and dreary as is the ancient fishing capital of 

 France, enterprise and industry are alone wanting to restore it, in somis 

 measure at least, to importance and prosperity* 



