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 was raised to him and his grave near Fort Point has been obliterated by time.

Agriculture progressed according to Normandy customs, and fish were exported to France and Portugal. The children of these colonists of La Have built the aboiteaux and planted the orchards about Grand Pré. An apple tree grows near the site of the chapel, whose chime and altar vessels are presumed to lie even to this day in the adjoining pond where they were thrown when invaders came from New England. Des Brisay relates that the colony lands were strewn with ruins and were pregnant with old implements and metal-ware as late as 1880.

The road rounds from the Point to Dublin Cove, a rocky road with an outlook so fair as to nullify the jolts. Over the buoyant track of Crescent Beach the car speeds close to the brawling surf. Great herring-gulls search the sands for fish left by the ebbing tide. A few miles off shore is La Have Island, the land first sighted by de Monts, April seventh, 1604. In summer, fishing is carried on from the shore. September is the month when the marsh grass is cut. Sometimes two