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Matters of the Veffels faid, he had as good carry them to 

 old France, &c. which put off that defign, they concluding 

 that the French Ships were there. Then the Major mov'd 

 for going over the Bay towards La/iane? 31 and toward the 

 Gut of Cancer? 3 * where was another confiderable Fort of 

 Indians, who often came to the affiftance of our Enemy, 

 the barbarous Indians; faying that by the time they mould 

 return again, the Enemy belonging to thefe parts would 

 be come down again, expecting that we are gone home. 

 But in fhort, could not prevail with the Matters of the 

 open Sloops to venture a-crofs the Bay; who faid it was 

 very dangerous fo late in the Year, and as much as their 

 Lives were worth, &c. Then they concluded and refolved 

 to go to Senaelaea, 229 wherein there was a ready compli- 

 ance (but the want of their Pilot Robert Cawley was a 

 great damage to them, who knew all thofe parts:) how- 



227 Mifprint for La Hare, a harbor of that St- John was as full of enemies 

 Nova Scotia on its S. E. coaft, at the as " Old France," and not to the ocean 

 mouth of the Have, fome 50 miles S. W. diftance ; as is fhown here by their re- 

 from Halifax. [Haliburton's Hift. Nov. Iuclance even to crofs the Bay. 



Scot, i: 141.] m Chiegncclo Bay {Beau Bq/in) is 



228 The gut of Catifeau is the narrow an inlet between Nova Scotia and New 

 channel between Nova Scotia and Cape Brunfwick, being the tapering northern 

 Breton, from the Atlantic into North- extremity of the Bay of Fundy. This 

 umberland Strait; averaging fcarcely is two degrees farther E. than St. 

 more than 2 miles in width, to a length John's, and a little farther north. The 

 of 17 miles. Almoft the whole length of fort, or fettlement, of Beau Bajin, which 

 Nova Scotia lies between it and St. Church was proceeding to attack, was 

 John, — making it at leaft four and a fituated at the extreme N. E. terminus 

 half degrees farther E. than that town. of the bay, and juft N. of the entrance 

 The faying above, of the matters, that of the river La Planche, on nearly the 

 " he had as good carry them to old fame fpot where Fort Lawrence after- 

 France, Sic," muft refer to their notion ward ftood. 



