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distance from the sea, among the valleys, and along some streams, indicate great fertility.

Between Cape Lawrence and Cape North, there is a bay eight miles wide; and although it does not seem a mile in depth, from the sea, it is in reality about three miles deep.

Aspé Bay lies between Cape North and Cape Egmont, on the Atlantic coast. It has only a har- bour for boats, but it has a remarkably fine beach ;"-G and the inhabitants, who are settled round the lagoons formed Within the beach, employ themselves in the pursuits of farming and fishing. The soil of the lands, particularly at some distance back from the shores, is rich and fertile ; but being under the influ~ ence of the bank fogs, the success of wheat crops is very uncertain. Near Cape Enfumé, at Nigonish, or Ingoniche, there is a settlement of fishermen.

Cape Enfume (Smoky Cape) is the highest head- ‘ land in Cape Breton. Its elevation is not known; and on passing it twice, I had not the means of ascer— taining its altitude; but, from comparison, its sum— mit appear ed to me about 1800 feet above the level of the sea, and higher than any mountain that IS seen from the sea. in tthlltlSthOlonleS. '

‘ Twenty miles to the southward lie St Anne’s Bay

*Mr Haliburton of Nova Scotia states, that “the sand" of this beach, “in some places, 1s found black, glitteiing, and'weighty. It instantly arranges its particles in beautiful ordei upon the magnet, and appears to be iron, nearly pure. Coins, to a large amount, are throv‘vn‘mup from the ocean, the remains of some vessel with specie

foundered here.”