Historic Highways of America: Volume 7: Portage Paths - The Key to the Continent by Archer Butler Hulbert

Author:Archer Butler Hulbert [Hulbert, Archer Butler]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Geschichte
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2018-05-01T22:00:00+00:00

On some early maps, such as Bellin, 1744, the Quelle is made to head with a branch of the St. John, which can be only the Black River. The Morris map of 1749 marks a portage from the St. John to the Quelle, and has this statement: " Expresses have passed in seven days by these Rivers from Chiegnecto to Quebec. " The exact route of this portage I have not been able to determine.

North-West Branch-Riviere du Sud Portage

This portage is first referred to in a letter of 1685 from Dénonville to the Minister: " Je joins a cette carte un petit dessin du chemin le plus court pour se rendre d'icy en huict jours de temps au Port Royal en Acadie, par une rivière que l'on nomme du Sud et qui n'est qu'a huict ou dix lieues au dessous de Quebec. On le ramonte environ dix lieues et par un portage de trois lieues on tombe dans celle de St. Jean qui entre dans la baye du Port Royal." This is probably the Grand Portage referred to by Ward Chipman in one of his letters of the last century.

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