d'ecorce

Updated: May 25, 2025

Beyond the ditch or canal which opened on the river was a large area, still traceable, in the form of an irregular triangle, surrounded by a ditch, and apparently by palisades. "Nous leur auons dresse vn Hospice ou Cabane d'ecorce." No doubt the buildings of Sainte Marie were of the roughest, rude walls of boards, windows without glass, vast chimneys of unhewn stone.

Francis Parkman - The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century