Down North and Up Along 
Not far from the well are what are supposed 
to be the foundations of buildings, one of which 
is said to be the site of the very chapel in which 
the Acadian men were imprisoned. 
Not long since some blacksmith's tools were 
dug up near here, which of course fired the 
imaginations of all who heard of it, and it was 
at once averred the site of the village smithy 
had been discovered, doubtless the very spot 
where Basil the blacksmith wrought. 
Some one in Grand Pre, we were told, has a 
collection of old French relics which he is will- 
ing to show to any one interested. 
The field in which lies the well is traversed 
by foot-paths worn by the coming and going 
of visitors. In some parts of the world this 
field would be enclosed and an entrance fee 
charged ; but so simple a means of amassing 
wealth has not occurred to the " lazy " Corn- 
wallis Valley farmer who owns it. He simply 
works the land the sight-seer has not tramped 
down too hard to be worked, and leaves 
this field to the fate it has brought upon 
itself 
There is another clump of very large wil- 
lows in the well-meadow, near the fence by the 
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