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NOTES AND QUERIES.
Questions.
53. Can you tell the name of the troop ship that arrived in St. John harbor on the 20th January, 1862, and the name of the regiment that was on board of the same steamship?
A. G.
54. What was the date of the collision on the St. John river between the "Anna Augusta" and "Tourist?" Nine or ten passengers were scalded severely and two died.
C. V.
55. On the 3rd January, 1821, tenders were called for erecting a beacon on the bar, where the old one stood. When was the old one erected?
Philo.
56. What year was John Quincy Adams, ex-president of the United States, in St. John?
C. W.
57. Can anyone tell if the cave at Lily Lake, discovered in 1843 by Cornelius Harbell, is on the Park grounds?
R.J.K.
58. Where was "Frog Pond" House, the rival of "Poverty Hall" in old times, situated, and can anyone tell how the name "Poverty Hall" originated?
R.
59. What was the date of the blowing up of the steamship "Experiment" at the South wharf, and can anyone give particulars?
L.M.D.
Answers.
52. As to "Gaspereau," I have always supposed it to be the Acadian form of the French Gasparot, applied to a similar fish in France. Littré and other French lexicographers give Gasparot as a kind of herring salted for use in winter, but inferior to the true herring. Denys, in 1672, uses Gasparot, and Bellin, in 1755, Gasparo, while Franquet, in 1754, has Gaspereau.