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adventures of the Catholic French roused all Puritan New England in 

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

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

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

 niins, 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 

 llie 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 dreaiy as is the ancient fishing capital of 

 France, enterprise and industry are alone wantiRg to restore it, in scbb© 

 measure at least, lo importaace and prosperity. 



