Archive image from page 265 of The description and natural history. The description and natural history of the coasts of North America (Acadia) descriptionnatur00deny Year: 1908 222 DESCRIPTION OF NORTH the cables from working. At a distance of four or five cables from the island, there are three rocks which are covered at high tide, and the farthest out is two or three cable lengths from the shore. These rocks also break the force of the sea, which brings it about that it is not so I have seen there as many as eleven fishing vessels which have all loaded with The fishery is ver
Archive image from page 265 of The description and natural history. The description and natural history of the coasts of North America (Acadia) descriptionnatur00deny Year: 1908 222 DESCRIPTION OF NORTH the cables from working. At a distance of four or five cables from the island, there are three rocks which are covered at high tide, and the farthest out is two or three cable lengths from the shore. These rocks also break the force of the sea, which brings it about that it is not so I have seen there as many as eleven fishing vessels which have all loaded with The fishery is very abundant. 1 They are shown as reefs upon the accompanying map. 2 Perce is still the centre of a fishery of the first importance, and the village is one of the largest in the Gaspe Peninsula. This place is of especial interest to our present subject from the fact that other members of the Denys family early settled here and established a sedentary fishery. This interesting phase of the history of Perce has not yet been given in print, but ample materials upon it exist in the manuscripts of the Clairambault Collection in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. These papers I hope to publish in full in a work I have long had in contemplation as a com- panion to the present work, a translation of Father Le Clercq's Nouvelle Rela- tion de la Gaspesie. There is also much in Le Tac's Histoire Chronologique de la Nouvelle France (1689 ; Paris, 1888). For a knowledge of the localities at Gaspe', which I do not yet know myself, I have had to depend upon others, and I have had much information from Pro- fessor J. M. Clarke, of Albany, who has written on the geology of the region, and especially from the Rev. Father Lavoie, of Perce, the Rev. Father Bosse, of Sainte Adelaide de Pabos, and the Rev. Father Sirois, of Barachois, all of whom have responded with the greatest courtesy and liberality to all my inquiries. They have sent me far more information than I give in this work, but of wh
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