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From North Cape to West Point: ’an impenetrable rampart of a thick kind of bruehwood, which even a man can scarce penetrate threugh’.
Grand Rustico: ‘the inhabitants of Tracadie reheat here for the cover of the woods, being more commodiously
E situated for fire i'. East Paint area: 'the lands are thickly D
Hi/Isborough Wllage: 'the lands are cleared for many covered mm a small species Of b'mh'
miles round with intermixed pieces of wood/and‘.
‘backwards into the country [from the bay of Fortune] it is almost entirely clear -m a fire '.
Three Rivers area: ’planty of fine ship timber and very large'.
'On the banks of the three n’vers are great
numbers of serviceable timber'. Cape Bear area:
/ ‘tha best ship timber in the Island’.
FIGURE 4. All of the geographically-locatabte forest descriptions of the anonymous officer who 'ran over' the island in 1762 (Anon. 1762).