Grand Falls

A town was built at the mouth of the River St. John, and another at St. Anne's Point, called Fredericton, where part of two regiments were stationed till the French Revolution.

Barracks and other public works were erected in different places, and the upper part of the country settled by establishing two military posts in the interior, one at the Presque Isle, eighty miles above Fredericton, and another at the Grand Falls, fifty-two miles farther up.

But the difficulties to which the first settlers were exposed continued for a long time almost insurmountable.

Having been reared in a pleasant country, abounding in all the comforts of life, they found themselves suddenly transplanted to a wilderness with a rigorous climate, devoid of almost everything that could make life tolerable.

Consequently, the Indian name of this river, which they call Lush Took signifies Long River.

It rises from lakes near the head of Connecticut River between the forty fifth and forty sixth degree of North latitude and stretches to the northward beyond the forty seventh degree of North latitude where it receives the waters of the Madawaska River, which rises near the Saint Lawrence.

It then inclines to the southward and continues its course uninterrupted, receiving several large streams till it arrives at the Grand Falls in latitude forty six degrees fifty four minutes.

Here its channel is broken by a chain of rocks which run across the river at this place over which its waters are precipitated with resistless impetuosity.