Blachford, M. (1840) Sailing Directions for the Gulf and River St. Lawrence chief/y compiled from the 
     
     approved works and surveys of Capt. H. W. Bayfie/d. Blachford & Imray, London. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Blachford claims on the title page of his book to be a hydrographer, and it appears that he also ran a London-based 
     
     publishing firm, possibly specializing in hydrographic publications. The main source of the hydrographic information 
     
     in the book, as he acknowledges, are the surveys of Captain Henry Bayfield who was then nearing the completion 
     
     of fourteen years’ work on the St. Lawrence River and its Gulf for the Admiralty. Blachford’s book contains four 
     
     pages on Prince Edward Island. The source of the non-h ydrographic information on the island, especially on the 
     
     timber trade, is not Bayfie/d but ”Information to Emigrants by a Late Resident of that Colony", (whom / presume 
     
     to be John Hill) first published in 187.9 - apart from the occasional word alteration, most is taken verbatim from that 
     
     pamphlet. Clear/y Blachford had never seen the island, and his few comments relating to the forests are second— 
     
     hand material. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Anon. [John Hill .7] (1819) Information to Emigrants: Some Account of the Island of Prince Edward, with Practical 
     
     Advice to those Intending to Emigrate by a Late Resident of that Colony. J. M. Richardson, London. 31 pp. 
     
    

    
     McKenzie, R. (1982) Bayfield, Henry Wolsey. Dictionary of Canadian Biography, XI: 54—57. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     The island is well settled, and possesses a good soil, fit for all general purpose 
     
    

    
     The country is generally level, or in rising slopes, and abounds with springs of fine 
     
    

    
     Ema/”9m “mm”- water, and groves of trees, which produce great quantities of excellent timber &c. 
     
     [p. 63] 
     
    
   
   
    
     Loading timber. Cardigan Bay. .- In these placeleard/gan River, Brudene/l River and Montague River] 
     
     many large ships have loaded timber. [p. 63] 
     
    
   
   
    
     Bedeque Bay. — It is the chief port for loading timber [p. 64] 
     
    
   
   
    
     Richmond Bay. — Vessels usually complete their lading at about a mile within Fishery 
     
     Island, but a considerable current runs there; rafts of timber frequently break adrift 
     
     in blowing weather; and on the ebb—tide, are frequently carried to sea, when a great 
     
    
   
   
    
     part is lost. [p.65] 
     
     Holland Harbour, or Cascumpec is the most convenient port in the island for 
     
     loading timber, at which there is a large quantity; also a saw mill, for cutting plank 
     
     and board. [p.66] 
     
    
   
   
    
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