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180 approaches the ocean at Port La Have, 12 miles from Bridgewater. A grass-bordered way diverges from the main drive, passes a plot where larkspur and foxglove bloom on low mounds, and ends at a wooden range light, whose tower forms a wing of the keeper's dwelling. Behind, a narrow gate swings outward to a promontory whose abraded embankment looks to the ocean. A search about the sandy base may discover a flat red brick or two from the bastions of Razilly's stockade.

Lescarbot is known to have landed here on his way from Port Royal to Canso in the year 1607. Six years later, an expedition outfitted by Madame the Marquise of Guercheville called at this port, planted a cross and went on to Port Royal. Isaac de Razilly, Knight Commander of St. John of Jerusalem, was chief of the Brittany fleet chosen to restore Acadia to the French after the signing of the Treaty of St. Germain-en-Laye. His associates were his cousin, Charles of Charnisay, and Nicholas Denys, the historian and voyageur. Esteeming La Have a more advantageous location for his forty families of peasants from Saintonge and Poitou than secluded Port Royal, Razilly founded on this projecting meadow-land the parent Acadian colony on the Atlantic coast. The fort was constructed shortly after their arrival in 1632. Four years later Acadie lost, by the death of Razilly, the most efficient administrator yet sent out by the Crown. But no permanent memorial