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CHARLOTTETOWN, situated on a. magnificent harbor, at the' head of Hillsborough Bay, where the East, North and West Rivers join before rushing between the crimson cliffs of Blockhouse and Trout Points into the ample Bay and widen- ing Straits, dates back to about. the year I700,

or possibly ten yearslater, when, under the name of PORT LA JOIE

(Joy Harbor), it was founded by the French, and fortified against the

English without and the Micmacs within, who were not always to be

depended upon. Probably the town was but an outgrowth of the fur

depots and fishing establishments of the 17th century, supplied each

spring and fall by French ships and held during the long winters by a

few chosen men and trappers. The remains of an old fort on the right

side of the entrance probably marks the site of the early-French town, although the battery was undoubtedly in repair during the' wars of the

Revolution and in 1812. " ‘ Captain john Rous, of “the Massachusetts Galley,” removed a part

of the French in'1746, and a portion of the seamen and soldiers engaged

were attacked and defeated with some loss by a force of French and

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