Archive image from page 144 of The description and natural history. The description and natural history of the coasts of North America (Acadia) descriptionnatur00deny Year: 1908 AMERICA. CHAP. II 115 having sustained for three days and three nights all the attacks of D'Aunay, and after having compelled him to withdraw beyond range of her cannon, was in the end obliged to [39] surrender on the fourth day, which was Easter Day, having been betrayed by a Swiss who was then on guard, whilst she was making her men rest, hoping for some respite. The very happily identified for us by testimony in a
Archive image from page 144 of The description and natural history. The description and natural history of the coasts of North America (Acadia) descriptionnatur00deny Year: 1908 AMERICA. CHAP. II 115 having sustained for three days and three nights all the attacks of D'Aunay, and after having compelled him to withdraw beyond range of her cannon, was in the end obliged to [39] surrender on the fourth day, which was Easter Day, having been betrayed by a Swiss who was then on guard, whilst she was making her men rest, hoping for some respite. The very happily identified for us by testimony in a lawsuit in 1792 {New Brunswick Magazine, I. 137) in which a pilot who had known the harbour many years testified ' that in early times the places of anchorage in the harbour were at the flats on the west side between Fort Frederick and Sand Point, and at Portland Point.' The first of these two places has no relation to any island, but at Portland Point there is known, and is still visible, an- other ancient French fort site, the only one known upon the east side of the harbour. All the pro- babilities, therefore, would seem to indicate this as the site of La Tour's fort. Before .this evidence was known, however, local students, quite naturally, had fixed upon Old Fort as its probable site, a conclu- sion to which we now know that not only Denys' narrative, but also substantially all early cartographi- cal evidence, which places it on the east side of the harbour, is opposed. I have set forth the evidence for the Portland Point site at length in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, IX. 1891, ii. 61, and V. 1899, 27°j anc m the New Brunswick Magazine, I. 20, 165. The only accessible recent brief for the Old Fort site is by Dr. James Hannay in the New Brunswick Magazi?ie, I. 89. The strongest argument known to me for the Old Fort site is a mention in a document in Moreau's Histoire de VAcadie Francoise that D'Aulnay, after taking La Tour's fort, repaired it for his ow
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