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[left margin note: WIM Coll. Acadiemia Nova '35 AUG 5 1936]

Deschamps describes the agricultural system of the Acadian
French and their mode of making [illegible] and [illegible] -
[Header underlined]

Having resided at Windsor for some time before
the Acadians were removed, I had an
opportunity of observing their system in
husbandry, and found by conversing with
some of the [antient?] men among them,
that it was founded on an experience
of a number of years, and that [scratched out: having no other means of subsistance than the raising]
in order to raise food for [scratched out: themselves illegible] the subsistance of
themselves and families, they had tried every expedient,
and were pursuing that which they
found to be most profitable.
Some of them had [return'd?] to
the province, at the time the settlement
of the [interior?] part of it - began,
by settlers from the american provinces
in the year 1760. and as I was, with
the late Judge Morris appointed to
Superintend the settlements at
Horton, Cornwallis, Falmouth, Newport,
the district of Colchester and Annapolis,
I encouraged the people who came to
settle, in consulting with the Acadians
relative to the cultivation of the lands
and such of them as pursued their
system, have consistantly found it to succeed, when
Deschamps