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■A heap of dried fifh twenty feet long, and ten wide, and four deep, contains 

 three hundred quintals. Such an heap fettles, in the courfe of forty-eight hours 

 after it is made, about i-i2th. 



An extraordinary fplitter will fplit five quintals of fifh in an hour. The ave- 

 rage in that time is two. 



There is no fifhing during winter, on account of the inclemency of the feafon. 

 It is fuppofed that the fifli in a great meafure quit the banks before that time, as 

 in general they are very fcarce v/hen the fifhing veffels go upon the banks early in 

 the fpring. , 



There are a few fmall towns on the coafts, v/hich have gardens fown with 

 Englijh pulfe ; but many of the inhabitants quit the country in winter. 



An admiral, or fome fea officer, \s gowcxnox oi Newfoundland, He fails from 

 England in May, and returns by the 30th oi November, 



COASTS. The coafts of Nova Scotia are, in general, rude and rocky, with fome varia- 



tions. It is peninfulated by the Atlantic ocean and gulph of St. Laurence, and 

 joined to the main land by a narrow ifthmus. From Bay Vert, on the northern 

 fide, the fhore is bounded with red cliff's, with beaches beneath, as far as Port 

 ■Luttrel, and the fame to a remarkable high rock, called, from its fliape. The Barn. 

 Cape George terminates the coafl: to the eaft. This promontory is iron-bound, 

 and very high, its fummit afpiring to four hundred and twenty feet above the fea. 

 This, v/ith Point Hood on the Cape Breton fide, forms a great bay. On the weflr- 

 ern Ihore, between Cape George and the entrance of the gut of Canfo, are moft 

 PLASTEB CLIFFS. ■'^^'"^rkable cliffs of plafter, lofty precipices, and extremely white. 



The gut oi Canfo divides Nova Scotia from Cape Breton, It is not above a mile 



wide : it opens into ChedahuHa Bay, which penetrates far into land. Cape Canfo 



forms the moft eaftern point on this fide of the gut; the land trends far to the weft ; 



„„ , from Canfo to Torbay breaks into feveral white rocky heads.. Beaver Harbour is 



BEAVER HAR- -' ■' , • . j j 



• BOUR. guarded by moft pifturefque ifles, rounded, with wooded tops. As far as Halifax 



it varies, with banks of red earth, or white infulated rocks : the capes and external 

 ifles are bounded with black flaty rocks, running generally out in fpits from eafl: 

 to weft, from the Rugged Iflands to the Devil's Ijle. Off" Halifax are remarkably 

 high red cliff's, linked with beaches : from thence to Cape Sable, an ifland which 

 forms the moft weftern extremity, is often broken, rocky, and white ; but from 

 Port Haldimand to Cape Sable the land appears level and low, with a fhore of ex- 

 ceedingly white fand. 



J3lf DE SABLE, About twenty-three fea leagues from Cape Canfo, in lat. 44, lies the fingular 



Jfle de Sable, or of Sand. It is in fhape of a bow, in length about eight leagues, 



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