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iiilaiul is a very higli table mountain which rises ahiiost perpendicularly from the low laud 

 and appears to be quite flat at top ; this laud may be seeu iu clear weather from a distance 

 of 16 to 18 leagues. Close to the foot of the Table Mountain, between it aud the point of 

 the cape, is a high round hill resembling a sugar-loaf, whose summit is a little lower than 

 that of Table Mountain ; and northward of this hill under the Table Mountain are two 

 other conical hills, resembling sugar-loaves which are not so high as the former." Now 

 there is nothing at all resembling this at Cape North in Cape Breton. 



Dr. Bourinot says (p. 134) : " The northern part of Cape Breton is divided into several 

 lofty heights, one of which is remarkable for its sugar-loaf aspect. Indeed, approaching 

 this grand coast from the northwest, there is an appearance of three capes." I must can- 

 didly say I have never seen it. I have observed it as one vast high ridge or plateau. But 

 I here subjoin a description of it from an ofSeial source, the "American Coastal Pilot," by 

 Edmund "W. Blunt. " Cape North, the northeast extremity of Cape Breton Island, is a very 

 remarkable bold, steep and rocky headland of slate in nearly vertical strata rising abruptly 



from the sea to the height of 1,100 feet St. Lawrence Bay, between Black Point and 



Cape North, is 4J miles wide and If deep, with bold shores, and a depth of water, etc." 

 There is no mention of any remarkable sugar-loaves. There is a hill called the " Sugar 

 Loaf," but it is not at Cape North, but several miles up the country at the bottom of Aspey 

 Bay. It is not a sugar-loaf standing out alone, as described by Cartier, but merely an 

 elevation of the mountain range, of which it forms a part, and in any case it could not be 

 seen at all by Cartier if he came from the direction of Bryon Island to Cape North. I give 

 here an illustration of the appearance of Cape North as approached from north or east. The 

 outlines are correct, as they are traced from a photograph lately taken. 



Cape North from the St. Lawrence Shore. 



