. The description and natural history of the coasts of North America (Acadia). Natural history; Fisheries; Cod fisheries; Indians of North America; Sciences naturelles; Pêches; Indiens d'Amérique. AMERICA. CHAP. VI 183 a great bay which extends near to Niganiche; it is eight or ten leagues in breadth. Within this bay are quantities of rocks where the Cormorants make their nests. Into the land of all these rocks, at the right, enters the Grand Chibou, which is the entrance of the Harbour of Sainte This is good and very spacious. Its entrance is between two points, and is not a hundred fe
. The description and natural history of the coasts of North America (Acadia). Natural history; Fisheries; Cod fisheries; Indians of North America; Sciences naturelles; Pêches; Indiens d'Amérique. AMERICA. CHAP. VI 183 a great bay which extends near to Niganiche; it is eight or ten leagues in breadth. Within this bay are quantities of rocks where the Cormorants make their nests. Into the land of all these rocks, at the right, enters the Grand Chibou, which is the entrance of the Harbour of Sainte This is good and very spacious. Its entrance is between two points, and is not a hundred feet in breadth. Vessels of three or four hundred tons can [156] enter there at all tides. The anchorage is good, and if the cables were to fail one would run aground only upon mud flats. The harbour can hold a thousand vessels. The basin is surrounded with hills, and with very high rocks. Ships can bring the bowsprit to the land on the right in entering, that is to say, can bring themselves so close to the land without danger that the spar of the bowsprit, which is in front of the ship, can touch there. The rock there is clifF-like. There are some little rivers and streams which fall into it and which come from all these mountains. At the end or ex- tremity of the harbour there is a mountain of rock, white as milk, which is also as hard as In another place there 1 This name appears first in Champlain, and persists to this day. 2 Our author's account of Saint Annes, which he knew well, is accurate, as the charts and descriptions testify. I have not myself seen it, but I have received ample information from one who knows it intimately, Hon. William Ross, of Halifax. The harbour is considered one of the finest in Nova Scotia, and for this reason came near being chosen as the site of Louis- bourg. The white mountain is no doubt the cliff of gypsum between the North and South Gut, while the land of coloured pebbles must be the "gypsiferous conglomerate" marked by
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