Le Comte de Saint Pierre A 
     
    
   
   
    
     Joye one of the most beautiful harbors that the eye 
     
     could behold.”*® He is also aware of ‘Tranche Mon- 
     
     _tagne, a league south of East Point, a harbor suit- 
     
     able for boats only; St. Pierre, fourteen leagues west 
     
     of East Point, capable of receiving vessels of sixty 
     
     tons; Savage Harbor three leagues further west, 
     
     suitable for boats only; Tracadie, three leagues fur- 
     
     ther west, capable of receiving vessels of 100 tons; 
     
     Quiquibougat (Rustico) a harbor for boats, Mal- 
     
     peque for vessels of 200 tons and Cascampeque for 
     
     vessels of 200 to 300 tons. All these harbors were 
     
     good for fishing as well as for drying and curing 
     
     cod. Apparently Three Rivers (Georgetown) had 
     
     not yet been discovered. 
     
    

    
     _ Of wild animals he mentions martens, otter, squir- 
     
     rels, and foxes of all colors, but no beaver. Deer were 
     
     to be seen and wolves of great size abounded, but the 
     
     elk and the moose had been exterminated by the In- 
     
     dians. Wild fowl were abundant, and, what is strange 
     
     to the modern student, the skylark, the starling, and 
     
     the nightingale. 
     
    

    
     De La Ronde also states that settlements already 
     
     exist at Tranche Montagne, Tracadie, and St. Peters 
     
     as well as at Port La Joye where sixteen families 
     
     from France and four from Acadia, totalling 100 
     
     persons, have been established. In regard to Tra- 
     
     cadie the settlement must have been small, and cer- 
     
     tainly it was temporary, for the first official census 
     
     of 1728 shows only four Acadian families there, all 
     
     of whom came in that year. It is probable that de La 
     
    
   
   
    
     10 P.E.I. Mag., Vol. 1, 1899, p. 301.