. Supplement to the arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. I N O V A S C O T I A. 4f nnJ not above a mile ai)(l half broad in the broadcft part. In the middle is a narrow pond of fca-vvatcr, running about half the length, which is filled every tide from the fea's rufliing through a little gut on the north fide. This pond con- tiii'i'; naultitudcs of feals, fome flat fifh, eels, &:c. and has about twelve feet dcplh at !( w-water. The entrance is often choaked with fand by a ftrong north wind, and cleared by the next fouthern blafl:. 'I'his ifland lies on a vafl fand bank, on which t
. Supplement to the arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. I N O V A S C O T I A. 4f nnJ not above a mile ai)(l half broad in the broadcft part. In the middle is a narrow pond of fca-vvatcr, running about half the length, which is filled every tide from the fea's rufliing through a little gut on the north fide. This pond con- tiii'i'; naultitudcs of feals, fome flat fifh, eels, &:c. and has about twelve feet dcplh at !( w-water. The entrance is often choaked with fand by a ftrong north wind, and cleared by the next fouthern blafl:. 'I'his ifland lies on a vafl fand bank, on which the water gradually deepens to fifty fathoms. At each end is a bar j water breaks on them often mad high : and there is, befides, a fiirf beating coiui- nually on the fliore, to be heard in calm weather feveral leagues. No boats can approach the ifland without rifquc. Landing is pradicablc; on die north fliorc only, and that only in calm weather. The north bar breaks, in bad weather, or eight leagues from the fliore; and thoufands offhips have been loH about this place. Al. Du Bar res * was two years in furvcying this fatal tract, and his fcrvices have been lately rewarded by the government of the ifles of St. John and Cape Breton. The whole iflc confifts of fine white fand mixed with white tranfpa- rcnt flones, but coarfcr than in the adjacent foundings : the face is much broken, and hove up into little hill;, knobs, and clift's, wildly heaped together. In the hollows are ponds of frcfb water, frequented at times by variety of fowls. On the fkirts grr- ⢠'Mnipcr and blue berries in their fcafon, and cranberries all the year. Here are â -s, but plenty of beach grafs, wild peafc, &c. which ferve to fup- port the :.;. .^, cows, and hogs, which run about in a ftate of nature. Wiccks and drift-wood afford fewel. The whole ifle has a firange appearance; for the fand- hills have a conoid fliapc, arc milk white, and fome of them arc a hundred and forty-il\ feet abo\
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