. A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou : his voyages to the St. Lawrence. A bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534, with annotations, a flat rock. And when thou comest out ofthe harbor of Carpont thou must leave this rock onthe starboard side, and also on the larboard side thereare two or three small isles; and when thou comestout of the side, ranging along the shore towardthe west, about two pikes lengths in the midway,there is a shoal which lieth on the starboard side;and sail thou by the north coast, and leave two parts 1 So in Hakluyt, and refers to the
. A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou : his voyages to the St. Lawrence. A bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534, with annotations, a flat rock. And when thou comest out ofthe harbor of Carpont thou must leave this rock onthe starboard side, and also on the larboard side thereare two or three small isles; and when thou comestout of the side, ranging along the shore towardthe west, about two pikes lengths in the midway,there is a shoal which lieth on the starboard side;and sail thou by the north coast, and leave two parts 1 So in Hakluyt, and refers to the group so called. 2 This no doubt refers to the island which Norie, in his Sailing Direc-tions for the East Coast of North America, part i, says ** should becalled the Northern Belle Isle, in order to distinguish it from those alreadydescribed; meaning the group at the entrance of the Strait of Belle Isle ofwhich he had spoken. i6a 245 COURSE OF JEAN ALPHONSE of the Grand Bay toward the south, because there isa rock which runneth two or three leagues into thesea. And when thou art come athwart the haven ofButtes, run along the north shore about one league or. o^^^ I o<^o c^ O Labrador i a half off, for the coast is without all danger. BelleIsle, in the mouth of the Grand Bay, and the Isles ofBlanc Sablon, which are within the Grand Bay, nearunto the north shore, lie , W., and , andthe distance is thirty leagues. The Grand Bay at the iThis and the five succeeding coast outlines were made by Jean Alphonse,who accompanied Roberval on his voyage to the St. Lawrence in 1542,and are interesting as being of so early a date. 246 COURSE OF JEAN ALPHONSE entrance is but seven leagues broad from land to land,until it come over against the Baydes Chateaux, andfrom thenceforward it hath not past five leagues inbreadth; and against Blanc Sablon it is eight leaguesbroad from land to land. And the land on the southshore is all low land along the sea-coast; the northshore is reasonab
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