. La rivière Saint-Jean, ses caractéristiques physiques, de légendes et d'histoire, de 1604 à 1784. pas très heureuse, comme nous l'apprenons de l'entrée dans son journal, en date du 21 octobre, whichreads : Travaux continuèrent. Ayant obtenu des severalsloops victuald et goélettes et eux, je commande& Cobb Rogers pour passer les chutes à couvrir les autres navires asthey pourrait être en mesure d'obtenir à travers. Il accordinglyget en cours. Cobb étant le headmost passe theNarrows [ sur le site du pont suspendu ], mais est toolate pour obtenir au-dessus des chutes et l'obligation de venir aussi dans un peu cove ci-dessous. L'Ulysse, le capitaine Roge

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. The river St. John, its physical features, legends and history, from 1604 to 1784. not a very auspicious one, as we learn fromthe entry in his journal, under date October 21st, whichreads: Works continued. Having got together severalsloops and schooners and victuald them, I order Cobb& Rogers to pass the Falls to cover the other vessels asthey might be able to get through. They accordinglyget under way. Cobb being the headmost passes theNarrows [ at the site of the Suspension Bridge ], but is toolate to get over the Falls and obliged to come too in alittle cove below. The Ulysses, Capt. Rogers, in passingthe Narrows, strikes on a rock, and is driven by the tideinto a creek above Cobb, where the vessel sunk in a shorttime, and it was with great difficulty the Light Infantry, who were in her, and crew were saved. Upon hearingthis and that Cobb did not lay very safe I ordered himdown again and very luckily, for at Low Water he wouldhave struck on the Rocks. Most of the casks and many other articles of theill-fated sloop of war floated towards the shore and hncttise. Scale <j lex mitts. 228 THE RIVER recovered, but tlie military stores were lost. The cap-tain of tlie man-of-war Squirrel endeavored to raisethe Ulysses, but was obliged to abandon the attempt, and she proved a total wreck. Having at length got his smaller vessels safely abovethe Falls and his troops on board, with provisions for afortnight, Monckton embarked in Cobbs sloop York, leaving Capt. Bellen, of the 35th Regiment, in commandat the fort. The force that proceeded up the river num-bered about 1, 200 men. In order to get a better idea of the progress of theexpedition, the reader will do well to refer occasionallyto the accompanying plan, which is a reproduction ofthat made by Moncktons chief surveyor. On the morning of the 30th October the little fleet gotunder sail, but the wind being contrary little progresswas made; indeed the ordnance sloop only escapedthe fate of the Ulysses by casting anchor i

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