Colonial LOCATION@1 and the MISC@1 colonial times , LOCATION@2 provided an easily traversed water -LRB- or , in winter , ice -RRB- passage between the Saint PERSON@1 and the LOCATION@3 .

Colonial LOCATION@1 and the MISC@1 the colonial times , LOCATION@2 gave an easily blocked water -LRB- or , in winter , ice -RRB- passage between the Saint PERSON@1 and the LOCATION@3 .
