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     5 feet depth over the bar at low water. St. Peter’s , 
     
     Harbor is only capable of admitting vessels oflight 
     
     draught, and is dangerous to the stranger from a 
     
     sudden turn ofthe channel to the eastward, and from 
     
     the fact that the bar shifts. The Morell river enters 
     
     this harbor on the southwest side, 3 miles from the 
     
     entrance, and is navigable for small craft about the 
     
     same distance up, where the floating bridge stops 
     
     further progress. There are several smaller streams 
     
     in this harbor, and at its head St. Peter’s River, 
     
     which is a mere brook at the head of the tide. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Savage Harbor is 9 miles to the eastward of 
     
     Tracadie, with only two feet at low water over its 
     
     bar. We have before stated that the distance from 
     
     the head ofthis harbor to the head of Hillsborough 
     
     River is about a mile, and has a road which con- 
     
    
   
   
    
     nects it. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tracadie Harbor, or Bedford Bay, is distant 4 
     
     miles from Cape Stanhope, and 13 miles abouts. E. 
     
     from Cape Turner. Its entrance is at the western 
     
     extremity of a remarkable range of sandhills about 
     
     60 feet high. The bar of sand, which shifts occasion- 
     
     ally in heavy gales, extends out to a distance of 
     
     three quarters ofa mile from the entrance, and has 
     
     a varying depth of from 5 to 9 feet over it at low 
     
     water, in a channel only about 80 yards wide. The 
     
     harbor is 3 miles wide within the sandbar, and car- 
     
     ries 52% fathoms water; it sends off a branch to the 
     
     westward called Winter Cove, and runs in 4 or 5 
     
     miles to the southward approaching at its head to 
     
     within 1% mile of the Hillsborough River, to which 
     
     there is, as before observed, a good and pleasant 
     
     road. Between Cape Stanhope and Savage Harbor 
     
     is Point Des Roches. Cape Stanhope, on which 
     
     there is a sandhill, 30 feet high, halfu mile to the 
     
     eastward of the entrance of Cove Head, and nine 
     
     miles to the southeast from Cape Turner, has 8. dan- 
     
     gerous reef running out from it three quarters of a 
     
     mile. On some parts of this reef there is only one 
     
     foot ofwater. Between Cape Stanhope and Cape