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machinery will, no doubt, be immediately used, and some safe plan to protect the vessels from the sea, adopted by the “ Albion Mining Company,” who now possess the mines, and who have also opened a coal mine at Lingan Bay, some miles to the south- ward.

The inhabitants around Sydney Bay and rivers are Scotch emigrants, some Irish, disbanded soldiers, and families of American loyalists. At the West Arm there is a settlement of Acadian French.

The coast from Sydney to Louisburg presents abrupt cliffs, low beaches, bays, rivers, and a few islands. The principal places are, Lingan Bay, which is scarcely more than a boat harbour, but the lands are good, and settled principally by Irish; Glace Bay, which has also a few Irish inhabitants; and Cow Bay, at which there are a few families of loyalists.

Coal is very abundant along the whole of this coast, and a pr ecipitOus cliff intersected by a thick stratum of that mineral, presents its transformation

A' in many places into cmde1 s, by a fire that continued

burning for some yea1s. This story has crept into some of our late geographical works, with the aug- mentation of the fire not having been extinguished since the English took Louisburg in 1745.

‘ Mire Bay and River intersect the island for about thirty miles. This bay has only a harbour for very small vessels. For a boat, or shore fishery, it is very convenient. The adjoining lands are not gene- rally adapted for agriculture, but afford excellent