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     CHAPTER IX. ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     WEST CAPE TO CAPE BEAR. 
     
    
   
   
    
     SUPPOSING the reader has obtained Cundall’s re- 
     
     cent map of Prince Edward Island, we will take 21‘ 
     
     start from WEST CAPE, and examine the coast line. ‘1 
     
     There is nothing particular to observe here, except 
     
     that it affords protection against north and east winds 
     
     in 4 fathoms water, not far out. Egmont Bay is a 
     
     bay 8 miles inland, by 17 miles across, formed be- 
     
     tweeu West Cape and Cape Egmont, having on its 
     
     northern shore Wolfe and Brae Rivers, dry at low 
     
     water. Percival and Enmore rivers, at the head of 
     
     the bay flow over flats of sand clay and oyster beds, 
     
     with only narrow and difficult channels; but the 
     
     tides extend about 5 miles up. There is a small 
     
     river here named St. Jacques, and a church 5 miles 
     
     north of Cape Egmont, ofthe same name, conspicu- 
     
     ously placed; the settlement to the north of it is 
     
     French. Haldimand River in this bay has sandhills 
     
     on its outer point of entrance. CAPE EGMONT is 50 
     
     feet high, and cliffed with Sandstone. There is here 
     
     about a mile away to the north an insulated'rock, 
     
     30 feet high, near the shore, called the Dutchman, 
     
     about4 miles from Cape Egmont, to the eastward. 
     
     FIFTEEN POINT church and village can be seen a 
     
     long way off. Sandbury Cove, 9 miles to the east- 
     
     ward ongmont Bay, though extensive, is nearly 
     
     dry at low water. Miscouche, with its church, is 
     
     about 2 miles inland. BEDEQUE HARBOR runs in 
     
     between Indian Head and Phelan Point. Here are 
     
     sandstone cliffs 25 feet high, and- higher elevations 
     
     further back from the shore; it is here more than a 
     
     mile wide. Indian Island is a mile within the en- 
     
     trance. In 1856 there were 55 vessels entered in— 
     
     wards at Bedeque—and 65 cleared out—imports for 
     
     that year, over £11,000—exports, over £9,000. The 
     
     fixed white light seen here nearly 7 miles away is a