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vate the divine feed fown in their minds. Not- 

 withftanding both the relations which have been 

 publifhed, and thofe who have travelled thither 

 have faid a great deal on the fubject of Tadouffac, 

 and our geographers have fuppofed it to be a city ; 

 and fome authors have even advanced that it had 

 a jurifdiclion belonging to it. 



In other refpe£b TadoufTac is an excellent har- 

 bour, and I have been afibred, that five and twenty 

 fhips of war might be fheltered in it from all winds, 

 that the anchorage is fure in it, and that its entry 

 is extreamly eafy. Its form is alrnoft round, and 

 it is furrounded on all fides by fteep rocks of a 

 prodigious height, from whence iflues a fmall ri- 

 vulet capable of fupplying all the fhips with wa- 

 ter. This whole country is full of marble, but its 

 greater! riches would be that of the whale- fifhery. 

 In 1705, -being at anchor with the fhip Hero in the 

 fame place, I faw at the fame time four of thefe 

 fifhes, which from head to tail were almoft as long 

 as our fhip. The Bafques formerly carried on this 

 fifhery with fuccefs ; and there are, on a fmall 

 ifland which bears their name, and which lies a lit- 

 tle below Green-Ifland, the remains of furnaces and 

 the ribs of whales. What a mighty difference muft 

 there be between a fedentary and domeftic fifhery, 

 which might be carried on at one's eafe in a river, 

 and that which is followed on the coafts of Green- 

 land with fo much rifk and at fo vaft an ex- 

 pence. 



The two following days no land-wind, and we 

 regret extremely our former anchoring- pi ace, at 

 which there were French plantations, whereas here 

 there are neither men nor beafls to be feen. At 

 lengthy on the third day at noon, we anchor, and 



we 



