XIV 
FRENCH RIVER 
TORQUIL McLANE'S ferry is the 
notable instrument by means of which 
the traveller can find his way out of 
Englishtown to the north. 
Englishtown lies opposite the narrowest part 
of St. Anne, which here may be about a mile 
wide, but that providential tongue of land 
must not be forgotten which separates the 
inner harbour from the outer bay, leaving only 
" a passage for one vessel at a time," and 
making of it a safe refuge in time of war. 
Although not at present of military impor- 
tance, the tongue of land still answers a very 
good purpose in shortening the labours of 
Torquil, the ferryman, who Is a man of note 
all over Cape North, and, for that matter, 
much farther. For whoever writes an article 
or even a letter about this part of the country, 
never fails to adorn the same with the pictur- 
esque name of Torquil McLane, the English- 
town ferryman. 
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