Archive image from page 216 of The description and natural history. The description and natural history of the coasts of North America (Acadia) descriptionnatur00deny Year: 1908 r\- cove, into which a little river empties. In this are taken in winter plenty of ponnamon1; this is a little fish almost like a gudgeon, which is excellent. All the top of this mountain is of good land ; the trees are fine, and it is there, on its top, I had my clearing made. I have here a good eighty arpents of cultivated land, which I had sown every year before my 1 The Micmac Indian name for the tomcod, a
Archive image from page 216 of The description and natural history. The description and natural history of the coasts of North America (Acadia) descriptionnatur00deny Year: 1908 r\- cove, into which a little river empties. In this are taken in winter plenty of ponnamon1; this is a little fish almost like a gudgeon, which is excellent. All the top of this mountain is of good land ; the trees are fine, and it is there, on its top, I had my clearing made. I have here a good eighty arpents of cultivated land, which I had sown every year before my 1 The Micmac Indian name for the tomcod, a common fish of this region. Rand's Micmac Dictionary', 266, gives it as poonamoo. Lescarbot uses the form fiounamoU) and Le Clercq (160) has ponamon. The name is in common use among the Acadians to this day as pounamon, as I am informed by Dr. A. C. Smith. 2 Our author's account of Saint Peters, as I know from personal study of the place, is accurate, and recognisable in every feature, despite some changes in the immediate vicinity of the fort-site, caused by the building of the Saint Peters Canal. The moun- tain, Mount Granville, rises steeply from near the fort, as Denys states. At its foot, near the canal, are three or four springs, and, if one follows up the hollow, or swale, above them, he will come to the little pond supposed by our author to feed them ; it is now a marsh, some 35 to 40 yards long and 15 to 20 wide, filled with flags and rushes, but no doubt was a genuine pond two hundred and fifty years ago. The mountain does fall in one direction to the Bras d'Or, and in the other to a cove into which flows the little river, Kavanagh Creek. On top the mountain is not now cultivated, but mostly covered with dense, second- growth spruce, from one of the openings in which, commanding a fine view to the west, the accompanying photograph of Saint Peters was taken. The site of Denys' fort is perfectly well known locally and marked with ample remains. Even without these the de
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