Tryon River.
Governors Island
St. Peters Island.
West River.
North River.
HiI/sborough River: ten cord boats.
Birch Point.
Rollo Ba y.
Fortune River.
Sour/s.
Fire at East Point.
Fire in the north—east.
Naufrage.
a l'autre il y a trois lieues, dans cet espace de chemin l’on a reconnu rien qui fut remarquable, les terres sont couvertes de toutes sortes de bois meslé. [p. 158]
La Riviere des Blonds s’enfonce de quatre lieues dans la profondeur des terres du Nord les terres que l’on y a deffrichées promettent beaucoup et les autres sont couvertes de toutes sortes de bois propres pour des constructions [p. 158]
ENGLISH TRANSLATION (from the 7906 translation, except for that in parentheses { }). (See Figure 6 (p. 109) for a map showing the location of the forest descriptions.)
The lie du Gouverneur [Governors Island]... lies low and is wooded with all kinds of timber. [p. 771 The Isle du Comte Saint-Pierre [St. Peters ls/andl is wooded with pine, white
spruce {rather: 'spruce’}, fir and hemlock with but little of the last. [p. 77] The river/ere du Ouest [West River] its banks are covered with all kinds of timber, but hard wood is the chief. [p. 77]
The riveriére du nord [North River]... the lands on its banks are equal in quality to those of the river du Quest, and the woods {the same}. [p. 77]
the riverie‘re du Nord-Est [Hi/lsborough River] it is navigable for boats carrying ten cords of wood. At this point the place called la grande source is reached . [p. 77]
Pointe au Boulleau, situated to the east of the entrance of Riv/ere de la Grande Ascension [Vernon River] [p. 119]
Anse du havre a Mathieu [Rollo Bay + Eg/inton Cove] the lands surrounding the Harbour are covered with hard wood of every description {more correctly: all kinds of hardwood}. [p. 126]
havre la Fortune [Fortune River]: All the surrounding lands are covered with different sorts of mixed timber, {more correctly: all kinds of mixed timber} [p. 126]
. we passed a little to seaward of the harbour la Souris [Co/ville Bay] . The entrance to the harbour is practicable only for boats and wood boats of the capacity of three to four cords. The land seems to be of a nature suitable for cultivation, and is covered with all kinds of hard wood fit for the construction of small vessels and boats. [p. 1281
. we doubled pointe de /’est [East Point]. This point has been reduced to a wilderness {or 'desert') by a fire which has passed through this section, and the settlers have established themselves at a distance of two leagues from the point on the north side. [p. 128]
We took the route for the Etang du Noffrage [Naufrage pond], following the sea shore continually for the six leagues at which the distance from the Post at Pointe de l’Est to the Etang du Noffrage is estimated. In this distance we met with nothing worthy of notice. The land is a desert owing to the occurrence of the fire, but a short distance inland the country is covered with hardwood {and all the lands are good} for the production of all kinds of grain and roots. [p.129]
The Etang du Noffrage [Naufrage] runs a quarter of a league inland to the south-west.
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