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leagues in circuit, which has an excellent harbour. 

 In the offing, at a fmall diftance from this ifland, is 

 a fpring of frefti water, which boils up and jets to a 

 confiderable height. 



All thefe parts are excellent for the fifliery, and 

 there is every where exceeding good anchoring 

 ground. It would even be eafy to erect magazines 

 or warehoufes, which would ferve by way of ftore- 

 houfes, or repofitories for Quebec. But an infinite 

 deal of time which ought to have been employed 

 in making fure of the cod, and feveral other fiftie- 

 ries, with which this fea abounds, and in fortifying 

 ourfelves in thofe pods, the importance of which 

 we have been too long in difcovering, has been loft 

 in carrying on the fur trade. It was natural for us, 

 having near us fo fure and commodious fheltering 

 to have gone thither to wait the return of a favour- 

 able wind, but we expected it to return every mo- 

 ment, and we thought to make the mo ft of it the 

 moment it fprung up. 



At laft, on Tuefday the ioth of September, to- 

 wards noon, the northweft fell ; then finding our- 

 felves without being able to advance, nor even al- 

 moft to work the fhip, we amu'ed ourfelves in fl fil- 

 ing, and this too coft us very dear. For the man 

 at the helm being more attentive to the fifhing than 

 to his rudder, let the fhip go up into the wind, 

 which occafioned the fails to lie aback. During the, 

 calm, we had already driven confiderably on the 

 ifland of Anticofti, and the accident I have been 

 fpeaking of caufed us come fo near it. As the cur- 

 rent carried us that way, that we already could di- 

 ftindtly difcern the breakers, with which the ifland 

 is lined on this fide; to compleat our misfortune, 

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