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eumpeque harbor on the north side of‘the entranc

which is an octagonal tower, which shews a whit light, visible in clear weather 8 miles away. Thi harbor has several Islands in it, the principal on being Savage Island. Here are Stephens’ Cove an Hardy’s Point; Foxley and Canadian Rivers; Ra phael and Portage Rivers, where an old Portag road of only two miles, joins Percival River on th

south side of the Island. Here is a George and 1 Mary, and another Trout River, Oyster River, Gordon’s, Hill’s, Mill and Dock, and not far away in the direction of Cape Kildare, Huntley and Kil-

dare Rivers.

Cape Kildare is 12 miles from the North Cape, but here there is little to note, except Big Tignish and Little Tignish, which are principally settled by Acadian French. North Point, which latitudes 47° 3’ 50” north, and longitudes 64° 2’ 21” W., is formed of low red cliffs, with dangerous reefs run— ning out to the northward and eastward more than a mile. The north side ofthe Island 1s one vast bay, and when heavy and long continued northeast gales are blowing, it is difficult to beat a ship out of it. With the exception of a few places off the bars of

the harbors, the anchorage is, generally speaking, very bad all along the northern shore of Prince Ed-

ward Island: the bottom being of red sandstone, thinly covered occasionally with sand gravel and

broken shells. The harbors are all of the same character, having

narrow entiances b‘tween sandbars, with dangeious bars of sand at various distances l'rom the shore.

Richmond Bay and Cascumpeque are, perhaps, ex- ceptions, but even these could not be safely run for in bad weather, and with a heavy sea running, for then the breakers on the bars extend quite across, leaving no visible channel. The west coast ofPrince Edward Island, from the North to the West Point, a distance of33 miles, about S.W., is unbroken, and formed of red clay and sandstone clifl's, with inter- vening sandy beaches, affording landing for boats m