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Memramcook, Petitcoudiac and Chipoudy, and how they were destroyed by the incendiary torch of an unmerciful soldiery. I thought of the stratagem used by Monckton at Beausejour to ensnare, on the 11th of August, 1755, the inhabitants of that district, and of the same infernal plan repeated some three weeks later, on the 5th of September, at Grand Pré and Pisiquid, by Winslow and Murray. All at once flashed to my mind the sad scenes of their embarkation on board the transports, when husband was separated from wife, son from father, daughter from mother, the lover from his betrothed, to be transported in different vessels to the four points of the compass. I could see in imagination the flight into the woods of those who escaped being taken prisoners. I could picture in my mind their heart-rending sufferings and wants in their hidden abodes, and the death roll amongst them from exposure and starvation. I could see the unceasing chase that the soldiery made on them. I could imagine the cruel agony of those on board of the transports, caused by the uncertainty of their fate. I could hear the bewailings of those struck by contagious diseases which had sprung up amongst them from over-crowded ships, and could almost h ear t he meanings of the dying. I could see about 1,300 of them perish from shipwreck during the voyage. I could see the transports' arrival at ports of the English colonies, at some of which the authorities refused to receive the human cargoes, which were again sent off to be tossed upon an angry sea until some were landed on one of the islands of the Great and Little Antilles, while others were disembarked at Bristol, Liverpool, Southampton, Penryn and Falmouth, England, where, after a captivity of seven years, they were allowed to go to France, whence some of them returned to their beloved Acadie. I could see the landing of those who were permitted to