388 CAPE BRETON . 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 , some miles to the south¬ ward. The inhabitants around and rivers are Scotch emigrants, some Irish, disbanded soldiers, and families of American loyalists. At the there is a settlement of Acadian French. The coast from Sydney to presents abrupt cliffs, low beaches, bays, rivers, and a few islands. The principal places are, , which is scarcely more than a boat harbour, but the lands are good, and settled principally by Irish; , which has also a few Irish inhabitants; and , at which there are a few families of loyalists. Coal is very abundant along the whole of this coast; and a precipitous cliff, intersected by a thick stratum of that mineral, presents its transformation in many places into cinders, by a fire that continued burning for some years. 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 in 1745. 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