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'^■'r^^- It is high-water here, at the full and change days, about teH' 

 o'clock J and the tide rifes and fails about four feet. 



Decerahcr. 



After I had finiflied this bufinefs of the infcription, I 

 went in my boat round the harbour, and landed in feveral 

 places, to examine what the fliore afforded ; and, particu- 

 Jarly, to look, for drift wood. For, although the land here 

 was totally dciUtute of trees, this might not be the cafe in 

 other parts ; and if there were any, the torrents would force 

 Ibme, or, at leafl, fome branches, into the fea, which would 

 afterward throw them upon the fliores ; as in all other 

 countries where there is wood, and in many where there 

 is none : but, throughout the whole e;stent of the harbour, 

 I found, not a fmgie piece. 



In the afternoon, I went upon Cape St. Louis-*, accompa- 

 nied by. Mr. King, my Second Lieutenant. I was in hopes, 

 from this elevation, to have had a view of the fea^coafl, and 

 of the illands lying off. it. But, when I got up, I found 

 every dillant objedt below me hid in a thick fog. The 

 land on. the fame plain, or of a greater height, was vifible 

 cnough>^ and appeared naked and defolate in the highed 



" geur. En dedans de cette rade eft un petit port, dont I'entree, de quatres enca- 

 " blures de largeur, prefente au Sud-Eft. La fonde de la petite rade eft depuis qua- 

 " rante-cinq jiifqu'a trente braftes ; et ccUe du port depuis feize jufqu'a huit. Le 

 «' fond des deux eft de fable noir et vafeux. La cote des deiix bords eft haute, & par 

 "■ une peiite trcS rud^; elle eft couverte de verdure, &: il y a une quantite prodigieufe 

 " d'Outardcs. Le fond du port eft occupe par un monticule qui hi/Te entre lui, et 

 " la mer une plage de fable. Une petite riviere, de tres bonne eau, coule a la mer 

 " dans cat endrok; & elle eft fournie par un lac qui eft un peu au loin, au defius du 

 " monticule. II y avoit fur le plage beaucoup de pinguoins ic de lions marins. Ces 

 " deux efpeces d'animaux ne fuyoient pas, & i-on au^ura que le pays n'etoit point 

 " habite ; la terre rapportoitde I'herbe large, noire,- & bien nourrie, qui n'avoit ce- 

 " pendant que cinque pouces ou plus de hauteur. L'on ne vit aucun arbre> nL figne 

 " d'habitation." Voyage du Adcnftcur de Pa^es, Tom. ii. p. 69, 70. 

 * Cape Erancois,^ 



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