4 HISTORY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. Breton on the eleventh of July, 1764. A thick fog having come on, the vessel had approached too near to the land, when the crew heard a musket shot, and the alarming cry of breakers ahead, which had proceeded from a fishing boat. The ship barely escaped the rocks. Contrary winds were gubsequently encountered, and Caplain Holland resolved to proceed in a rowing boat to Quebec . He accordingly left the ship on the nineteenth of July, and arrived in Quebec on the second of August. In Captain Holland met Captain Dean , of the Mermaid , who had visited the Island of Saint John during the summer, and who advised him to take " all sorts of material and provisions with him, as there was nothing left on the island but a detachment posted at , who were indifferently provided, and could not furnish himself and his staff with lodgings." Captain Holland arrived on the island in October, 1764. He de¬ scribes " as a poor stockaded redoubt, with barracks scarcely sufficient to lodge the garrison,—the houses near it having been pulled down to supply material to build it." " I am obliged," he adds, " to build winter quarters for myself. I have chosen a spot in the woods, near the sea shore, properly situated for making astronomical observations, where I have put up an old frame of a barn, which I have covei-ed with what material I brought with me, and some boards that we collected from the ruins of some old houses. I fear that it will not bo too comfortable." The vessel in which Captain Holland was conveye^l to was called the Ganceaux, and had been fitted out by the government with the view of aiding him in his pro¬ fessional operations ; but on applying to Lieutenant Mowatt , her commander, for boats and men, he was coolly told that such aid could not—according to instructions—be granted. Having complained to Lord Colville , then in command of