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referred to as being at the entrance of the harbor is Partridge Island, and that the point of sand is the place now called Sand Point, the site of the deep water wharf of the Canadian Pacific railway. The cove or creek where LaTour had his weir is also easily recognized as that which runs through the Carleton flats from the Mill Pond. The people of St. John are very familiar with this place for it is the locality of the famous landslide of 1896, and of the city's deep water wharves which have done so much to make the name of this port known abroad. So far I am with Dr. Ganong in the work of identification, but when he proceeds to select "Old Fort" in Carleton as the "little knoll" on which Charnisay built his fort I must take issue with him. I am quite willing to admit that if Denys had stopped at this point I might have accepted Dr. Ganong's theory, although I do not think that a "little knoll" is a good description of the site of the Carleton fort. Its elevation is slight, but as a point of land it must have been very prominent when Denys saw it before the Carleton flats were covered with wharves. That accurate observer would therefore have probably described it as being the extremity of a point of land if he had been referring to it in that connexion. On the other hand Portland Point is really no point at all, and the site of the fort there might very well be described as a "little knoll." Denys does not say that this "little knoll" was on the west side, but that it was "a little farther on beyond the said weir." Now the distance from Sand Point, where the weir was, to "Old Fort," Carleton is 2,600 feet, while to Portland Point it is 4,400 feet. As the shortest of these distances is just half a mile, it appears to me that the term "a little farther on " is quite as applicable to the larger distance as to the shorter. However, I am not concerned to find a location for Charnisay's fort at Portland Point or