. The river St. John, its physical features, legends and history, from 1604 to 1784. rinking water. Complaints on this head go back atleast to the time of Governor Villebons residence. It has already been stated that Boishebert, on thearrival of Capt. Rous in 1755, blew up his magazine,burst his cannon and retired up the river; and it isworth mentioning in this connection that a few years ago^ome workmen who were laying down a sewer at the oldfort site dug up a fragment of a very old cannon of smallcalibre. It was hooped with iron to give it additionalstrength, and is in all probability a frag
. The river St. John, its physical features, legends and history, from 1604 to 1784. rinking water. Complaints on this head go back atleast to the time of Governor Villebons residence. It has already been stated that Boishebert, on thearrival of Capt. Rous in 1755, blew up his magazine,burst his cannon and retired up the river; and it isworth mentioning in this connection that a few years ago^ome workmen who were laying down a sewer at the oldfort site dug up a fragment of a very old cannon of smallcalibre. It was hooped with iron to give it additionalstrength, and is in all probability a fragment of one ofthe guns destroyed by Boishebert. It may, however,have been considerably older than this, for its workman-ship shows it to have been one of those forged pieces of 238 THE RIVER ordnance common in the early part of the sixteenthcentury but which were mostly replaced in theseventeenth century by cast metal guns. The old gunof which this is a fragment may very probably be asold as the days of la Tour. Many gun fragmentswere doubtless buried in the earth dumped upon the. FRAGMENT OF AN OLD FRENCH CANNON. spot by Moncktons soldiers in the construction of theearthworks of Fort Frederick. When the foot of KingStreet, in Carleton, was being graded, about twenty-fiveyears ago, the workmen came upon an old graveyard,presumably the garrison burial ground, long used by theFrench and English, About the same time, or a littleearlier, a number of relics were dug up on the old fortsite on Middle Street. ST. JOHN 239
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