Down North a?id Up Along 
founded here by French Jesuits, but prosper- 
ity did not attend these efforts, and soon both 
garrison and mission were removed. 
In a French book, written by Thomas 
Pinchon and translated into English in 1760, 
we get a very good description of St. Anne, 
or Port Dauphin, as it was then called. 
" Port Dauphin is a very fine harbour, two leagues 
in circumference. It is almost entirely shut up by a 
neck of land, which leaves only a passage for one 
vessel at a time. The ships can hardly perceive the 
least motion of the winds, the grounds, that surround 
it on all sides, being of so great a height ; besides, 
they approach the shore as near as they please with- 
out danger, and the harbour is capable of admitting 
vessels even of four hundred ton. The bay is capa- 
cious enough to contain a thousand [vessels]. Be- 
fore it is the great Bay of St. Anne, covered to the 
southeast by the two islands of Ciboux and Cape 
Dauphin. . . . The strand of Port Dauphin is of 
greater extent than that of any other harbour in the 
island ; and notwithstanding that there is plenty of 
codfish, yet this is not the only advantage of the 
place ; the neighbourhood of Labrador [the Bras d'Or 
lakes were then called Labrador] and Niganiche [Ingo- 
nish] renders it easy for the inhabitants and the sav- 
ages to assemble upon necessary occasions. 
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