402 CAPE BRETON.

name VVhycocomah. The inhabitants are principally Scotch islanders, settled along the shores, and not in the most thriving condition, although nothing but the proper application of their labour is necessary to secure them independence and comparative aflluence. Several cargoes of timber have been exported from VVhycocomah.

The shores of Petit Bras d’Or are settled, but most populously on the south side, by emigrants from the Hebrides.

The narrow passage which connects Petit Bras d’Or and Le Bras d’Or, has been named the Strait of Barra, from the circumstance of the inhabitants set- tled in its vicinity, or their fathers, having emigrated from the island of Barra, one of the Hebrides.

Le Bras d’Or, or, as it is usually called, Great Bras d’Or Lake, opens suddenly to a great width, and af- terwards branches into four large arms. It is about twentymiles in extreme length, and fifteen in breadth.

The cast arm, or St Andrew’s, bends off a few miles to the south-east of Barra Strait, and extends in a north-easterly direction abou twenty miles, from Benakaady to Tweed Porge basin at its head. Its shores are indented with coves and creeks. On the north shore, at the harbour of Escasoni, which lies within a cluster of islands, there is a tract of land occupied by the Micmac Indians, some of Whom are stationary, cultivate the ground, and possess some cattle. All the other lands fronting on this arm, are occupied by Scotch Highlanders. Opposite a head— land, which forms the extremity of the south shore