Radius of Doubt copyright Library of Congress TXu 689-510, March 21, 1995. Author David E. Moeller. Page 40 to 41 extract below by author: "...like a murder mystery, the question of "who did it?"; is usually a question foremost in peoples minds. I too have wondered about the likely suspects in this mystery. The 'pit', flooding systems and artifacts (the inscribed stone and stone triangle) are I think from the original effort to create what can only be called, a bank. Who did it? Most people familiar with the mystery on Oak Island, are bias; in thinking. Something appears to be still there to my mind, but it has only value to the people who buried it. It's a 'treasure' of a people consisting not of gold chains but family treasures, things that people wanted to keep. These people were the french smiths, merchants and farmers and their families who lived in this land with the native indians prior to their external exile. An exile forced upon these people after the colonial wars between England and France. In their forced exile from the land; they took only what could be carried, pulled or pushed; leaving behind their buried dead and forsaken dreams. And something of themselves that these people left, could also of been their spite. If this could be true, then it is apparent why the inscribed stone can be translated into a english sentence. Just in case; if the english found the pit before the french could reclaim the prized possessions."