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and west and about 200 yards wide within the 3-fathom line, with 

 a least depth of 6 feet over it. Between these shoals and the shore 

 the soundings var}^ from 6 to 10 fathoms. 



The whole of the shingle beach at the head of Ship cove, open 

 southward of the cliffy bluff half way between it and Pigeon head, 

 bearing 79°, leads southward of the two shoaler patches, but over, or 

 close-to. the 5f-fathom patch. 



March point is low and flat, and it is noticeable from its generally 

 green appearance projecting some little distance from the dark 

 wooded hills behind. Eastward of it there are some houses, both on 

 the shore and on the flat, and near them the ground is more or less 

 cultivated. The point is fronted by a stony beach and some ledges 

 of rock, off which the 5-fathom line extends to the distance of I mile. 

 March Point bank, south-southwestward 1^ miles from March point, 

 is a ridge about 1^ miles in length, with 22 to 24 fathoms of water 

 over it. 



The coast from March point trends west-southwestward, and con- 

 sists of low cliffs with a narroAV strip of level land behind them, 

 thickly wooded except where cleared by settlers, and extending to the 

 foot of the hills, which here approach the sea. The stony beach, hav- 

 ing off it some flat ledges of rock, is fairly steep-to, but the bottom 

 is rough and only fit for temporary anchorage in fine weather. 



Degras is a small settlement nearly 3 miles from March point ; and 

 Grand Jardin is a similar settlement 1^ miles farther westward. The 

 inhabitants of these two places, and also those at Petit Jardin, a few 

 huts tf mile westward of Grand Jardin, are principally French, and 

 engaged almost entirely in fishing. 



Cape St. George. — From the land 9G0 feet high, at 1| miles north- 

 northwestward of the village of Degras, dark wooded ridges, with 

 occasional bare stony summits, fall toward cape St. George, a short 

 distance from which the Avoods terminate and bare grassy slopes 

 extend to the cliffs, which on the southern side of the cape are about 

 50 feet high. A pyramidal rock, connected with the western end of 

 these cliff's by a low shelf, shows well from the southward ; close to it 

 is a low detached rock, and here the coast turns abruptly northward, 

 rising in high perpendicular cliffs, which at a distance of ^ mile from 

 the cape are 225 feet high. Cape St. George is steep-to, and may be 

 rounded closely, but a swell nearly always sets on to the shore, and 

 the tidal streams are strong. 



The coast from cape St. George to cape Cormorant consists of 

 high cliffs, and nearly midway is Big cove, where a few fishermen 

 occasionally live during summer. Northward of this cove the cliffs 

 are fronted by some low rocky islets and rocks, but the coast is gen- 

 erally steep-to and free from off -lying shoals. The land rises in bare 



