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Toiiii,-!! oiiiita, wIk'IO the ri'maiiisoi'ii bnildiiiii' iiri* .still to h.' scon, in which 

 om- laiiidrcf] .■■oldii'T.s were Klatioiud, Avhilt out' hundred others wrc nt 

 8t'.^ Ik0«(,' dn Denrle, at iho other end ol Lake Temisoonata The .Ameri- 

 cans on iht'ir side crcct( d l)nrrn(ks iorly miles iurtli^'V at Fort Koit at 

 thr ]>lace ^A•el•^• J'"ish Iviverralls iiitolhcSt John Iviver. Tliis stnir ol'afiaiis 

 lusi'd until 1842 vvh<ii Great Ihilain. hy thr Ashhurton ir.Miy. cd d to 

 the Vniled Stales a t-onsiderahle jxirtion ol X. w llrunswick on the sonlh 

 ])a)ik (jT th(> St. .l(dn! liivi'r. Not only were p '-is i',-t;;ldish.d hi'Ve and 

 there alonir the road, but the Canadian ("n 'V'-rnni. lit JndLi-cd sni;i.' lamiHcs 

 they(> 1o whom it 2ave a certain quaiilil y ori)rovisi()iis, just as i. now docs 

 ii; till' Various liu'li! h'lU-t's on lie St-I/iwr iirc, Travdl ;••> [Vi. n 'J:!,,;idii 

 to Xcvv-liruiiswirk. :;nd vf(C-i'>rsii, fJi:i)prd iit tic si' pm-is w le r<' ih y e; I and 

 slo;U on payiaciit ol' a small amouni and cvi u did not i>av at all \vh<'ii 

 Hi. y brniiii-pi their (nvii in-ovisions. 



Antoim,' Dunio'it, !lu oldi^t inhahitain clihis nuinn wlci loadr tic 

 first clcarint^' at Sti' Ro- ■, in \>^y>l is oic- of ilius'- who us -d to k.'p ilic^' 

 posts. l-"or a lonu' time his was the Diily dw(dlini>' at the ])lace now 

 oalli'd 8tf. hes". Jlis ni'ai'i'>T iciuhhour livd in a cabin niiu' miles 

 away. Twelve uiih's rurlhfr, lived one ■'.Jcorir.' Doll, whose >hicr duty 

 was to mark out with ir^'cs tin' winter road on Lake Temisrouata so that 

 ill" posTuiaii wlio carri d ih' iiiail ev ry i'oi-tnight and travellers should 

 be ahli' to lind th'-ir way. 



The old military road was rouiiiily made thronuh the Ibri'st In 

 gummer it was nst.>d only between liivicrc du Loup and Lake Tcnniscouata, 

 a dislanci^ of about lllty miles which took three days to iret over. l'"roni 

 th" lake to Edmundsloii, travellers Weiil by canoe (.11 the Madawaska 

 Rivtr. which carries the wat'.'rs ol tlie Lak ■ 1m liivcr Saint John, 

 ihirlv miles lurther. This canoe voya<|e was very easy and pleasant 

 in a river without rai)ids and whose low but very j)ietures(jue shores 

 form a narrow and remarkably ft rtile vali y. There was, howi'ver, a por- 

 taii'e to be made on arrivinp,' at Edmundston. which lor that reason was 

 called "Little Falls." It is a very modest rai)id throuL>'h whieh the 

 Madawaska i'alls into the Saint John Sometimes ovi'U the rapids could 

 be jumped. At this place which for a lontr time was called "Littlei 

 Fails " and which is now Edmundston, theri' was only one hous(> inha- 

 bited by a man named Belauger. Fiv(^ miles lower down, where now' 

 stands th(^ fine and nourishing parish of Saint Basile on the New Ib-uns- 

 wick bank, opj)osite the State of Maine, there w'as only a mile and ;i hall 

 of road which was practicable and one saw nothing but canoes at tlu' 

 church door on Sundays. The old military road soon became insufficient 

 for the increasing r(dations between th ■ inhaliitants of Ifiviere du Loui' 

 and the people of Madawaska, as they w-ro th'ii called. Moreover, this 

 road had pr-^p'rly speaking, been opened on the t "rritory of th- old Pro 

 vint;e of Lower Canada only bi'tween liiviere du Loup and the head 

 Lake T-niiscouata. It had also been made rather at haphazard, withou 

 preliminary survey and had many unnecessary lengths and turnings. I 



