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not to move too faft; fo that he might have the benefit of 

 their affiftance, if he had occafion; but the faid Lieutenant 

 not being fo careful as he mould have been, or at leaft was 

 too eager, was mot down, and another Man; which were 

 all the Men that were kill'd in the whole Expedition. 

 Towards Night Col. Church ordered fome of his Forces 

 to pull down fome of the Houfes, and others to get Logs 

 [116] and make a Fortification for his whole Army to 

 lodge in that Night, that fo they might be together: and 

 jufl before Night ordered fome of his Men to go fee if 

 there were any Men in any of the Houfes in the Town; if 

 not, to fet them all a fire : which was done, and the whole 

 Town feemed to be of a fire all at once, &c. The next 

 Morning the Colonel gave orders to his Men to dig down 

 their Dams, 3 ' 28 and let the Tide in to deltroy all their Corn, 

 and every thing that was good, according to his Inftruc- 

 tions; and to burn the Fortification which they had built 

 the Day before: And when the Tide ferv'd to put all their 

 Plunder which they had got into the Boats. Then order- 

 ing his Souldiers to March at a good diftance one from 

 another; which caus'd the Enemy to think that there was 



328 Haliburton fays that there are vaft Mines, are very fuperior to thofe in 

 marines fkirting this Baye les Mines other parts of the Province — the water 

 (Bafon of Mines), which, "when en- of that extraordinary refervoir being 

 clofed with dikes, and well drained, are not only difcolored, but actually turbid, 

 exceedingly fertile, yielding, for fevcral with the great quantity of matter held 

 years in fucceffion, abundant crops of in folution by it." \HiJt. Nov. Scot. 

 wheat, and alternate rotations of hay ii : 363.] The Acadians had probably 

 and grain, without the aid of manure." already begun this form of tillage, and 

 He adds : " the marines, formed by the thefe dikes to which Church here re- 

 rivers emptying into the Bafon of fers are thus explained. 



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