Englishtown 
" The vessels employed in the fishery at Niganiche 
are obliged by the king's ordinance to retire to Port 
Dauphin toward the fifteenth of August, because of 
the storms that rage in that season. When they 
have got into those harbours, they expose the cod- 
fish on shore, where nature seems to have made a 
bed for that purpose. Sometimes you see a hundred 
and fifty boats employed in this business." 
It seems that the French were for some 
time undecided as to whether the citadel of 
Louisburg should be built at Port Dauphin 
or on " English Harbour," as Louisburg har- 
bour was then called. Port Dauphin was 
more impregnable but less convenient, and 
was finally rejected. 
St. Anne Bay is another inlet like those two 
long " arms of gold " that give entrance to the 
Bras d'Or lakes. It lies nearly parallel with 
them, but does not reach more than ten or 
twelve miles into the land, because of the 
watershed which keeps it from forming an- 
other arm to the Bras d'Or lakes. 
It was an easy matter to sail from the east- 
ern harbours around to St. Anne ; and when 
there was any fighting going on, St. Anne 
seems never to have been left out. 
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