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N. Scotia shore is the highest but the Cape Breton 

 shore appeared the greenest. Houses were scat- 

 tered along the banks, and we saw something Hke a 

 village at Ship harbor on the Cape Breton side. We 

 stopped at Jestico island just as we were getting 

 into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. We stopped also at 

 the Magdalen islands, and spent a day rambling 

 round. We stopped at Amherst island and found 

 a hundred and fifty families there with a Catholic 

 priest a Mounsieur Brulette from Quebec. These 

 men support themselves by fishing and the soil yields 

 a few potatoes. They are Canadian French, but the 

 merchant who resides there, sells them their goods 

 and buys their fish, is a native of Halifax, a shrewd 

 fellow, who has made his fortune. A few wild geese 

 breed in ponds but not on the part of the island 

 where we were. They have foxes, hares, rats, no 

 other wild animals. The next day we had a fair 

 wind, passed the bird rocks, where we saw Gannets 

 by thousands so thick, that the top of the rock 

 looked as if covered with snow, but were unable to 

 land on account of the surf. We passed Anticosti 

 and arrived at this place last Monday, having had 

 a very comfortable passage. We have been shooting 

 away here but have not come to the parts where 

 birds are most abundant. There are five vessels in 

 the harbor from Eastport, fishing for cod, and they 

 average about a thousand a man. Most American 

 vessels go farther north, but we have one here from 

 Newburyport, and one from Halifax Nova Scotia. 

 The fishermen are up every morning at half past 

 two work eighteen hours in the day, and sleep four. 

 The fishing is done in boats off from the shore, 

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