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fishing be revoked and the habitans allowed to profit from the industry while not neglecting agriculture; (4) that an expert surveyor be sent to settle the land disputes once and for all; (5) that the govern- ment of Isle Saint Jean be organized independently of Louisburg; and (6) that direct communication be established between the colony and France.

Franquet’s detailed account of his journey about the island together with his observations upon the settlements and the habitans have been sympatheti- cally translated and brilliantly summarized by the late Professor John Caven as follows :?

A fair wind had carried the vessel which bore Fran- quet from Louisburg through the “Passage de Fronsac” —Canso—and round the lofty promontory of St. Louis, Cape George, but after passing Pictou Island, it shifted round to the northwest, and the thirty-first of July and first of August were spent in beating between the shores of Acadia and the Island. On the former he noticed the Harbour of Tatamagouche, which he was told lay only seven leagues from Port Lajoie. On the Island shores he passed Cap a L’Ours, and les Isles a Bois—[ Cape Bear and Wood Islands] and Point Prim. On the third of August the wind was favourable and the vessel laid her course up what was then called the Great Bay of Port Lajoic. The hidden dangers caused

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Professor Cayen of Prince of Wales College devoted some time to a study of isolated incidents in the history of Isle Saint Jean. I have checked all his work and found it accurate as to fact. This extract is not a literal translation throughout but it preserves the

narrative of Franquet, while interpreting here and there by a comment in season,