Shore Dcvclopjncnt in the Bras tVOr Lakes. — Woodman. 339 
from each side ; Pellier harbor, north side of West bay, partly 
closed by one recurved spit ; an unnamed harbor south of Mac- 
leod point, south side of West bay, two bars ; Barrachois point 
in St. x\ndrew channel, described by Prof. Tarr, where the har- 
bor of McLeod brook is nearly closed by a hooked spit which 
starts parallel with the north side of the bay, then turns south 
to close it up, nearly uniting with the mainland ; mouth of 
Maccrutchie brook, west end of Little Bras d'Or, two bars ; 
one-fourth mile southeast of Black point, south shore of same, 
two bars ; Beaver cove, eight miles east of the last, already 
mentioned as a cusp with characters of a hooked spit ; Bena- 
cadie pond, Great Bras d'Or at the mouth of East bay, one 
bar ; Amaguadees pond and Christmas pond, north side of East 
bay, one long curved spit in each case ; and an unnamed bay 
one-fourth mile west of the former pond, two straight bars. 
A curious variation of the ordinary bay bars, which tend 
to run directly across the bay, is furnished in a few instances 
by bars which are turned sharply toward the head of the es- 
tuary, apparently because the wave action from without is 
vigorous, the river action from within slight. Examples of this 
are Head Bay cove, near the settlement of West Bay, at the 
head of the bay of that name, two bars, one much the longer; 
mouth of river Bourgeois, Lennox Passage, two short and 
strongly curved bars ; and the mouth of river Tillard, Lennox 
Passage, one short bar. 
Bay bars: across middle. — Instances are Baddeck bay; 
South Gut, St. Ann harbor ; Campbell point in Malagawatchkt 
harbor. West bay, a very early stage ; river Bourgeois, LennoxT 
Passage, already referred to as having bars across the mouth. 
The last has two bars, the rest only one. 
Bay bars: across head. — The only good case of this which 
has come to my knowledge is at the extreme west end of St. 
Patrick channel, north of the mouth of Blue's brook. The 
stream emptying there is merely a wet-weather rivulet, a few 
hundred feet .long. The bar softens the angle which before 
marked the head of the bay, leaving a small triangular lagoon 
behind. In West bay, near where Ross brook empties from 
the north, a bar has run diagonally northwest almost across 
the head of a small indentation, and nearly shut ofY a diminu- 
tive body of water. 
