GULF COAST. 399 distance from the sea, among the valleys, and along some streams, indicate great fertility. Between and , there is a hay eight miles wide; and although it does not seem a mile in depth, from the sea, it is in reality about three miles deep. lies between and Cape Egmont , on the coast. It has only a har¬ bour for boats, but it has a remarkably fine beach ;* 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 , at Nigonish, or Ingoniche, there is a settlement of fishermen. (Smoky Cape) is the highest head¬ land in . 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 appeared to me about 1800 feet above the level of the sea, and higher than any mountain that is seen from the sea in theTBritish colonies. Twenty miles to the southward lie Anne's Bay * Mr Haliburton of Nova Scotia states, that " the sand" of this beach, " in some places, is found black, glittering, and weighty. It instantly arranges its particles in beautiful order upon the magnet, and appears to be iron, nearly pure. Coins, to a large amount, are thrown up from the ocean, the remains of some vessel with specie foundered here."