. The sea coast resorts of eastern Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton . o the mainland for both wood and water. This they did undercover of the night and in constant fear of attack. To. add to the horror of their situation a new and dread disease brokeout among them. Thirty-six of the little band of ninety fell victims toscurvy before a remedy was found in a simple antiscorbutic — theboughs of the spruce steeped and drank. This was recommended bythe Indians, and forms the earliest testimonial in favor of spruce beer. The bodies of their dead were carried a
. The sea coast resorts of eastern Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton . o the mainland for both wood and water. This they did undercover of the night and in constant fear of attack. To. add to the horror of their situation a new and dread disease brokeout among them. Thirty-six of the little band of ninety fell victims toscurvy before a remedy was found in a simple antiscorbutic — theboughs of the spruce steeped and drank. This was recommended bythe Indians, and forms the earliest testimonial in favor of spruce beer. The bodies of their dead were carried at night to the mainland bytheir comrades and there buried. Fancy the feelings of these men in anew and unexplored country, in the midst of an unknown death, andsurrounded by a dreaded forest foe ! Spring came at last to their relief, and, with the survivors, Des Montsset sail about the middle of May, 1605, southward in search of a warmerclime. They entered the Penobscot, discovered and named MountDesert, and voyaged as far as Cape Cod ; there the search was abandonedand the ship returned to Port SEA COAST RESORTS. 4l THE MAGAGUADAVIC RIVER AND LAKE UTOPIA. Let us return for a moment to Passamaquoddy before bidding it adieu. At a point some distance east of the peninsula occupied by St. Andrews,the Magaguadavic River, a purely provincial stream, finds the sea also inPassamaquoddy Bay. It bears a strong part in the history of boundarydisputes. For more than a century and a half following the attemptedcolonization at the island of the Holy Cross, this was practically a for-gotten region. Meanwhile, other adventurers from Catholic France hadvisited the Magaguadavic, and, as was the custom with discoverers fromCatholic countries, had set up the cross at its mouth. From this incidentthe river became known as the St. Croix, and as such when confoundedwith the St. Croix of the Des Monts expedition, which was named as theboundary in the treaty of peace between Great Britain an
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