to North- America. «7? 



Prance, being a Convoy to ten or twelve Merchant 

 Ships. He gave me feme Refrefhments, and told 

 me fome news of Canada, which were very accep- 

 table. We purfu'd our courfe in fpight of the South- 

 Eaft Wind, which oblig'd us to tack about feverai 

 ways, till we came to Vortneuf. near to Tadouffac. 

 In this place we were ftranded by the fault of the 

 Coafting- Pilot, who being obftinate for cafting An- 

 chor near the Land, was like to have been the caufe 

 of a Shipwrack* At Midnight the Ship was fo dalli'd 

 againft the Sand, that I thought {he was fplit in 

 pieces, but the Tide ebbing by degrees, fhe was Mt 

 lying upon the Coaft, without any apparent Dam- 

 age, I prefently caus'd a Kedger to be dropt in 

 the deep Water belag'd with feverai Ropes calFd 

 Grelim Epijfes ( fee the Explication Table,) and the 

 next Morning the Tide returning fet the Ship afloat, 

 and then we haul'd it in with the Capeftan. On 

 the ipb we caft anchor near the Red IJland, and the 

 next day being the 14*6, we pafs'd that Channel 

 without danger, by the favour of a frefh Gale from 

 the North- Eaft. 



On the 1 $tb we caft Anchor at the IJle of Ham : 

 On the i6tb we pafs'd the IJle of Coudres ; On the 

 ijtb we weather'd the Cape of Tourwente, and the 

 next day we anchored in this Port. From the 

 Mouth of the River to this place, we had the fineli 

 Sunfhine days that ever were feen : During which 

 time, I had both leifure and opportunity to view 

 the Coafts on the right Hand and the left, while we 

 tack'd about and about as the wind ferv'd. When 

 I law a great many Rivers on the South fide, Iask'd 

 the Pilots why the Ships us'd to fteer their courfe 

 on the North fide, where there is no Anchorage 

 to be found, but at Papinachefc, the feven IJles, and 

 Fortneuf. They anfwer'd me, that the ordinary Bree- 

 zes of the rough North- Weft Wind, which blows 

 upon this River for three quartets of a year, were 



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