(63’) 
     
    
   
   
    
     urner, the coast forms a curve or bay, in which 
     
     e situate the entrances ofthe Rustico harbors. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Cove Head Harbor has a narrow sandy en- 
     
     ance on the western side of Stanhope Point; this 
     
     allow place extends for several miles within the 
     
     ndbars, and is divided by Black Point, into Peter- 
     
     am and Stanhope Coves, which have small brooks 
     
     their heads, navigable on a small scale, about3 
     
     iles up. Grand Rustico Harbor has two narrow 
     
     ndy entrances on either side ochAuslin’s Island, 
     
     nd which are distant 3 and 5 miles respectively, to 
     
     e southeast of Cape Turner. Although vessels of 
     
     0 and three hundred tons are built here, they have 
     
     be floated light over the bars in fine weather. In 
     
     onsequence of the dangerous shifting sandbar in 
     
     is harbor, the buoys, as to position,are changed as 
     
     ccasion requires. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Hunter and Wheatly Rivers, navigable for small 
     
     raft to the distance offive miles inland, with Winter 
     
     reek between them,run into this shallow place,which 
     
     xtends 5 miles along the coast within the sandbars 
     
     chAuslin’s Island, and Brackley point, which se- 
     
     arates it from Cove Head. There are extensive 
     
     ettlements here of Acadian French, and two 
     
     hurches,with steeples,on the western side of Winter- 
     
    
   
   
    
     reek. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Passing Orby Head, when about 8 miles from 
     
     ape Tryon, a red sandstone and conglomerate clifl‘ 
     
     resents itself, 120 feet high—this is the highest cliff 
     
     n the Island. 
     
    
   
   
    
     New London harbor, a mile and a half S.S.E. from 
     
     ape Tryon, has its entrance at the N.W. extre- 
     
     ity of a long range of sandhills, the highest of 
     
     hich is 55 feet above high water mark. The en~ 
     
     rance to this harbor is one—third ofa mile wide, and 
     
     arries about 18 feet of water; but it is, nevertheless, 
     
     nly fit for small vessels in consequence ofa danger. 
     
     us and shifting bar of sand, over which only about 
     
     feet of water flows at low tide. Within the en- 
     
     rance the harbor is 3 miles wide, branching into;