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town from keeping too much within the River 

 St. Charles, where, at half ebb, they would get 

 aground upon the reef that stretches nearly 

 across its mouth. From the same wharf down 

 to the edge of the St. Lawrence at low water 

 the distance is two hundred and thirty feet, 

 nearly all a reef of flat rocks ; and in a north- 

 easterly direction, the Pointe a Carey, a large 

 irregular ridge, runs about two hundred and 

 forty yards beyond the wharf ; it leaves a small 

 opening for the channel of the St. Charles, 

 from whence another chain of rocks ranges in 

 different directions about the entrance of it, 

 which, at low- water, is uncovered, and at high 

 water has about two fathoms and a half upon 

 it. From the Grand Battery on the cliff, a 

 little before the flood-tide makes, two distinct 

 reefs can be seen stretching across it, nearly 

 parallel to each other; the entrance into it is 

 close within Pointe a Carey, where several 

 sand-banks form two or three different passages 

 between them. Opposite to Pacquette's Wharf 

 » there is a large rock, and also a ledge lying off 

 Hunter s Wharf ; if these were removed it would 

 greatly improve the convenience of the beach, 

 and might be effected without much diffi- 

 culty ; at half ebb these, the ledge before 

 Henderson's Wharf, and the large green plats 

 on the opposite side of the channel, begin to 



