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beauty of the Ingonishes, nor did it seem pos- 
sible they could lie there so lonely in their 
loveliness, unvisited by pleasure-seeking man. 
The Ingonish people are fishermen, and are 
principally Irish and Scotch Catholics. Like 
Englishtown the place was known long ago, 
and was at one time a flourishing French fish- 
ing settlement, but war required victims, and 
the men of Ingonish were drawn away to fight 
instead offish, and the place, like St. Anne, was 
finally wrested from the French by the English 
of Commodore Warren's fleet. 
Traces of the period of French prosperity 
are said still to exist, though we did not know 
about them at the time, and no one volun- 
teered information concerning the relics of the 
past. It seems that a large church was built 
here, and in 1849 a bell weighing not less than 
two hundred pounds was dug out of the sand 
of the beach. It bore a French inscription 
and was marked St. Malo, 1729, and was said 
to have had a remarkably clear tone which 
must have been heard far out to sea. It was 
carried away to Sydney, which the people of 
Ingonish never should have allowed. 
In 1740, the records tell us, Ingonish was 
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