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-SAILING DIRECTIONS 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 RIVER St. LAWRENCE, 
 
 From Cafe Chatt to the Island of Etc, &c. &c. 
 
 BY CJPT. JOHN LJMBLY, 
 
 Va&SI ¥!▲«• COMMAtiPKft Or THE GOVirNMINT V1ISI& ITATIOM^ 
 
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 HE Author of thefe Sailing Dire6iion$ thinks proper 
 to mention that in the year 17971 he firft came to Que« 
 bee and particularly felt the want of fome Sailing Direc<- 
 tion> to Navigate the river St. Lawrence. The repeated 
 opinions of Seamen and fellow Captains fince that time 
 have fully confirmed his firft opinion that a book of this 
 kind would be of great ufe, and he having been employ- 
 ed three years as Commander of the Government Veflel 
 ftationed oflF Father Point ; he has had an opportunity of 
 making the following Remarks. They are thrown toge- 
 ther juft as they occurred to him while on the fpot; and as 
 the Book is defigned to come into the hands of Teamen 
 only, he flatters himfelf that the language will be eafi* 
 ly under flood* 
 
 This book is defigned to accompany a general chart 
 of the river from Cape Chatt to Bic Ifland; and four 
 particular onesy one of the Ifland of Bic, with the paf— 
 fage, and anchorage to the Southward of it ; one of 
 Saint Nicolas Harbour, one of Trinity Bay. and one of 
 Manicougan great Shoal and Bay, on a larger fcale than 
 General Chart. 
 
 Bat as the plates cannot be engraved at Quebec, the 
 Charts muft be lent to England, for them, and he hopes 
 that they will accompany the book next year. 
 
 The latitudes and longitudes of the principal placet 
 in this river has never been accurately afcertained 
 I believe, but taking the fituation of Saint Nicholas 
 Harbour for a true departure (from Hamilton Moore 
 or Mallham), the bearings and diftances are worked 
 from them, as ciicumftances allowed. But Teamen will 
 all agree with me that lat. and long, are not very eflen- 
 tial in navigating this river to the Weft ward from Capo 
 Chatt. 
 
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 SAILING DIRECTIONS 
 
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 CAi^fi CHAtT TO TH£ iSLANlJ 6t BIC , 
 
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 SOUTH SHOR£ OF THE WVER SAlNt LAWRfeNCE, 
 the bedringi are all by the Campafs. 
 
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 CAPfcChat is a remarkable hummock of hndlikea 
 fhort fugar loafj and much lower than the land around it. 
 
 Betweeh it and Point Deamon or Cape Mdntpellea 
 on the North fidd, the river is ofiiy eight leagues and 4 
 half wide. 
 
 They heair from each Other S. by £. ^£, and N. by W; 
 
 iw. 
 
 The Land aboat the Cape Chatt on the top of the 
 mountains is very much broken and uneven, which is a 
 certain mark for being up to the Cape, as there is no 
 Land broken on the top like thefe mountains in any part 
 of the River to the Weft ward* 
 
 From Cape Chatt to Matane River, the coafl tenda 
 W by S. and diftant fix leagues, the coaft between them 
 is indented with three places like Bays bi^ r^Zi (belter on 
 liny part bf the coaft for anchoring. 
 
 Soundings between them (and without the depth of 
 fifteen fathoms) is all fand, but within that depth M 
 hatd and foul. And in fifteen fathoms water yon will, 
 not be half a mile from the rocks— 4nid in fome pfa^es 
 clofe to them. The Water deepens very faft from fifteea 
 futhomf , fo much fo ^at, a mile and half from Ihore, yoo 
 Will liay« 50 and 60 fathoms with clean fine iandt 
 
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 The tide flows by the fhore 1 9 o'clock nearly at Cape 
 Cbatr : but the tides in the River St. Lawrence are very 
 inucb influenced by the winds. — Strong EaOerly winds 
 make them flow much higher and run ftronger. — A WeU 
 terly wind have the contrary effe£l. 
 
 The flipre is all very barren quite up to M^'Ane, and 
 nothing to be got from ic but wood and water. 
 
 Matane is a fmall river of. little ufe to (hipping (except 
 to fmall veflels) when abrcaft of this river and not more 
 than three or four miles from it, you will fee feverat 
 houfes, and a bluflFclifi^ (landing byitfelfon the Weft 
 fide of the entrance, and clofe to it, when the faid bluflf 
 bears S S £. a lead coloured houfe will then be juft open 
 to the Eaftward of it; keep it fo and run for the river, 
 this mark will lead between two banks, which dry at 
 low Water, and over the bar which has only fix feet 
 water on it at low water, the two Banks lay not a half 
 mile from the fhore fmall veffels fometimes run down a« 
 long the land and go to the Southward of the Wefter«i 
 moH bank— -the two Bai'ks fometimes fhift by the violen- 
 ce of the upland water from th& mountain« in the fpring 
 of the year when the fnow m^lts at which time the cur* 
 rent runs very ftrong out of the river. 
 
 Ships may procure provifions here, which is the oiily 
 ufe they can make of it except in diftrefs when with a 
 Pifot and high water they inay haul clofs roud the Weft 
 fide the entrance and lay alongfide the fand bank in 14 
 feet at low water. 
 
 Tide flows at Matane;| paft 12 o'clock full and change. 
 
 V.^hen one or two leagues to the EaUward of Matane, 
 and three miles from, fhoie, you will fee the paps of Ma- 
 tane bearing SW|-W. they ftand in land to the Weft, 
 ward of the river, this is the bell bearing, to diflinguifh 
 them in— and Mount Camille \kill then bear SW by W 
 ^W diftant foiirteen or fifteen leagues, this mountain 
 appears to the Northward of all the land then in fight in 
 lb< fofm of a circular ifLtnd. Course 
 
Courfe from Matahe to Mount Camille, !t W S Wi 
 between them and ei;^!)t leagues co' the We Award of Ma« 
 tane lays Little Mittis Cove, it is a fmall place where 
 fmall veflels may find (belter with Wefterly winds in two 
 and three fathoms at low water. 
 
 To anchor, in going in give the £a|l end of the reef a 
 both of too yards or crofs it in three fathoms, and haul 
 to the Weftward and anchor in the middle of the cove* 
 The reef runs one mile nearly to the Eaftward from the 
 land, and from it to the fliore or main the diftance is 
 near two miles with regular founding into the cove. The 
 coaft is all barren from Matane to this place* 
 
 Tide flows at Mittis one o'clock full and change. 
 
 Two leagues and half SW. from Little Mittis laya 
 Grand Mittis, a Imall CoVe with a river on the S W* 
 fide of no ufe to ihips as the Cove nearly drys at low 
 water, fmall veflels may anchor with S W winds in tnree 
 fathoms at low water, but with Weftecly winds^they will 
 have no fiielter* 
 
 'Little Mittis is knovrn from Grand Mittis by its having 
 a round bluff rock laying S £• from the North reef one 
 mile and half, and a little to the Eaftward of the blnff 
 rock ftands a fniall hill on the mountain in the form of 
 a fugar loaf. Grand Mittis has a large rock ftanding in 
 the middle of the Cove and little Mittis has none. You 
 muft be within tiro or three leagues of the fliore to make 
 the Cove out, as the points of land and the reefs which 
 forms the Coves are very low. 
 
 Soundinge from Matane to Grand Mittis* 
 
 The BaiUs extends further to the Northward off the 
 Mittts's then off Matanne having thirty five fathoms water 
 with fand four miles from fliore» and from four to fix 
 miles off, you drop itito fiity or feventy fathoms. The 
 North edge of the bank being very fteep quite up to fiic 
 
 Within ten fathoms water the ground is allhaird and 
 
 foul and very ba4 landing with a boat» except in fine 
 
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 irctthcry and at the Covef at Littla and Grand Mtttii* 
 The coaft hctwccn the Mittla'f U very full of rocki } in 
 fome placet they run near a half mile from fliore. Three 
 miles to the Weftward of Little Mittia lays Death Cove, 
 a fmall place where the Pilots^ boats find ihelter ^iih 
 Xallerly winds, but dry at low water. 
 
 From Gmnd Mittis to Cock Cove the Eaftermoft part 
 of Father Poiqt the land tends W by N. and diftant three 
 and half or four leagues. The ground is all fouf a half 
 mile from (hore, but in horn twelve to fifteen fathoms. 
 V'iXels may ftop in calm weather with clean ground. 
 The current g^>ncrally running ftrong down on the Souih. 
 ihore. Monai Camilla lays between Grand Mittis and 
 Cock Cove* 
 
 From Cock Cove to the Weft part of Father point the 
 land tend due Wrft and diftant five miles between the 
 Cove and Point the bnd is low and well flnck'd with 
 houfei» and the Pilots live on fliore here (at leaft many 
 of them) and this place is the general Rcndea*vous for 
 them all* On the Weft patt of the Point Hands a houre 
 with the body of ic painted ied» it is ths Weftermoft Pi* 
 lots boule named Roislow. From thi* houfe to the Ifland 
 of Barnaby the bearing is due Weft, three miles and 
 balF^the Ifland then la} s W by S. and u tliree miles 
 long. 
 
 £nall vefleh may find fheker from Wefterly winds 
 under the £aft nud of this Ifland^ in from two to three 
 fathoins at low water. There is a round large ftone on the 
 reef which runs to the £a(hvard of ihe Ifland a quarter 
 of a mile. Crois the reef by the lead, and go to the S W« 
 'till the fairgeftotie bears If W by W. and the body of the 
 Ifland will bea;; W by N» an^. aoofaor a. quarter ^ a mile 
 from the Ifliknd. Small veifeb. may^ likewife find good 
 ihelter from: Eafterly and N: £c windk» under the WefV 
 end of this Ifland^ run up to the Weftward untill. the 
 Chttfch which lUnda on the oaaiA U jjift open to the 
 
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 Eaftwtrd of a MofF rocky Ifland which layi c1o(e to <h« 
 main and due South from the Weft end of Barnahy with 
 chit mark crofi the lecf in three fathoma ^which runn to 
 the N W, from Bamaby)aDd come too midway between 
 this bluff ifland and Barnaby.— •Bamaby then will bear 
 N E. and in from thrtt or four fathoina at low water. 
 The channel from Bamabv to the bluff Ifland ii three 
 fourths of a mile wide and all clean good ground. At 
 high water fpring tidea there is fourteen feet water through 
 between Barnaby and the main bat quite dry at low wa- 
 ter, with many large flonea here and there. Veflels of 
 ten feet water may mn through (afely between the ifland 
 and main fliould they be caught at anchor at either end 
 by the wind fliifting fuddenly, but it muft be at ipring 
 tides or near thefD, as at neap tides there is no where nino 
 f«et. 
 
 The tide flows at Barnaby Ifland, fuH and change al 
 t o*clock. The church above mentioned ftands due 
 South from the body of Barnaby Ifland on the EAtt 
 fide of the river called RimooflLy. Rimoufki is :he nahle 
 of this parifli it begins at Cock Cove and continues two 
 miles above thia rtver. 
 
 There are no houfes cm Barnaby Ifland and very little 
 water : fliips in want of water muft go to the river. 
 
 From Barnaby Ifland, Bic Ifland bears Weft and 
 Bic^uette W. by N. The fit ft three leagues and latter teii 
 miles, and Cape a I'Orignal bears W. by S. ^S.three lea- 
 gues and a half. 
 
 Cape a TOrignal and the Eaft end of Bic Ifland lay^ 
 due N. and South of each other from the Weft end 
 of the Ifland N. W. and S. £. and from the £aft end of 
 the reef which extends S. £. from the Ifland S. S. W, 
 and N« N. £• and the diftance from the Cape to the 
 Biody of the Ifland is about two miles and three quarteri. 
 Beiween Barnaby and Bic Iftandi, lays river Ottey, 
 and OJd Bic harbour. River Ottey hiya S. W. from 
 
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 Barnaby about fyye miles, andji of up nfe to fhippin j 
 but to water at. 
 
 Old Bic lays to the Weft ward, of Ottey river, about 
 three miles, and is a very good place for fmiill vcflels to 
 iheher from Weftcrly wittds. 
 
 This harbour has two round Iflatids on the Eaft fidti 
 of it and it is one mile from them to the Weitfide, an- 
 cbor midway between the Weftermoft Ifland and the 
 Wefl JTide of the harbour, in three fathoms at low water 
 and the Weft point bearing Weft* 
 
 Cape 9 rOrignal bears from the harbour of Old Bic 
 due Weft, and diftant about two miles and a half, ^rom. 
 the Cape runs a^ reef £. by N. one mile, and th-^Eaft 
 pavt of that reef and the Weft point of Old Bic harboui* 
 and the Welt end of the Iflajidof Bic are in a diredline 
 W. N. W. and E. S. £• the diftance from the Eaft end 
 of the reef to Old Bic harbour is one mile, between 
 them is a Bay of no uie to (hipping, bein^ all foul 
 grpnd and flioa)^ water. The leading mark to ckar the. 
 reef of Cape a rOk?gnal, going in and out of Old Bio 
 harbour. Keep the fwatth way in the S. E. part of 
 Old Bic harbour, open to the Eaftward ofihe Weft poiiiK 
 of the harbour, bearing £. S. £« ^5 and four fa- 
 thoms water fpring tides. 
 
 - The fwatch way mentioned is made by j river running 
 down the mountains, juft to the Wcftward of the fwatch 
 way the land appears like chalk but is white barren 
 rock. It is a very good mark for fmall efleb coming 
 down from the Weiiward, and tneaning tc mchor at Old 
 Bic, as the Eaft part of the reel of the Chfi^. is covered 
 at high water, and is all rocks and dry at low water* 
 
 S. W. Diftant one mile from Cape a TOrignal, lays 
 tb'e ^s^ft ftde of the Bay Ha. Ha. it is about three quaf* 
 tersof a mile wide and one mile deep (due Eaft f fmall 
 veftels may anchor with the Eaft part of the Bay bearing 
 N; £. (and the Eaft end of Bic jfland will then be fliut^ 
 
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 with it) in two or three fathoms at low water, good ihel- 
 ter from Eafterly windi, but the Bay ii of no u(e to 
 large veflels^ 
 
 Soundings from Cock Cove to Bic Ifland. ;m, Vr;f t 
 . The hank runs to th» Northward from Father point 
 about fix miles, at that diftance from the landth^reis 
 thirty five fathoms Water with fand and mud, and al| the 
 way to the Weftward within one mile of Bic(}uettey the 
 foundings are very regular. Ships may Hand to the 
 Southward by the lead and tack in what water they 
 pleafe. Ships may alfo (top the ebb tide any where in 
 this diftance . with fine weather in nine fathoms clean 
 good gronud* ' 
 
 Ships being off Father Point, and no pilots to be gotf 
 with Eafterly wind and clear weather, may fafely run a- 
 long the land in ten fathoms water, and as they draw 
 near to the Ifland of Bic, they will fee the reef which 
 lays S £. from the Ifland, give that a bitrhand keep in 
 the middle between the Iflsindand Cape. And when the 
 body of the ifland bears N £• and eleven fathoins water, 
 may come to anchor with good ground and wait for the 
 Pilots coming down the river, ■ 
 ' Obferve the nearer the Ifland the harder the ground* 
 
 There is a fmall place on the Ifland cleared of the treea 
 when that bears N £• and eleven or twelve fathoms, it 
 is a very good birth for riding. 
 
 Ships being off Father Point with Eafterly winds and 
 thick weather, and no pilots on board, will ftand to the 
 Southward by the lead, and will tack as they think pro* 
 per by the foundiiigs. Obferving when in twelve fa- 
 thoms water, Bic Ifland wtU then bie due Weft fron» 
 
 them. ■ ' J . ■ ■ :. ■■ ^ ' r ,': ■ 
 
 To beat from Father point to Bie Ifland, fliips may 
 make as free with the South fliore by the lead as they 
 pleafe, obferving the nearer they are to the fliore the 
 ftronger the flood tide, they xn^y fafely ftand tofiZ| feven 
 
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 6r eighf fathom^. If to the Eaftward of Barnaby idatid 
 and fine weather iity may anchor In feven or eight fa< 
 thorns, and may do the fame all the way to Bic. 
 
 In beating- if^to the Southward of Bic, ftand tothtf 
 Southward to Teven fathoms while to theEaftward of the 
 Ifland^ (bat when up the reef, tadk in nine fathoms) in 
 the liiiddle there' is twelve and thirteen fathoms, and to 
 the N'orthward t^ck in ten fathoms. The paflage ai ' 
 before mentionedis two miles and three quarters widd 
 andwhen the Iltand bears N« £• anchor as before direc* 
 ted. , i 
 
 In Old Bic harbonr liveyonefamil)^, where fome prob 
 vifions may be got occaflonally, and abottt two milet 
 above the Bay of Ha Ha or S. W. from Bic, lives ano- 
 tbei^ family, which are all the Hon fes between this and 
 Three Prnoles or Bark Ifland. Paflengers wilhiog to 
 proceed to Quebec by land from Bi^, muft go the Weft* 
 ernmoft houfes, and procure' a guide to take them 
 through the woods to the next parifh where horfes ipay 
 be got, 6r elfe take the boat up to Bark Ifl^id and land 
 Git me main at the hoafes^ which it five leagues from Bic* 
 I mention this that ftrangers may know how to procee<l 
 ihould they wilh te leave the (hip and go by land which 
 very often happens* 
 
 The tides flow at Brc Ifland full and change^ g o'^clock 
 and rifes in fpring tides, it or 14 feet and neap tides f 
 Oi 8 ftret. 
 
 The flood ticfes never bend to the Weft Ward til! aii 
 hours flood by the &ore, and in neap tides the floods ar^ 
 very weak and with frefh wefterly wind^ there is none at 
 an, but in- thefprmg trdes ftips will altvaysrfind a flood' 
 
 tide from Father point to Bic lfiand« 
 
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 up, 
 
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 ap» may fteer W* S. W. and run tweniy two «r thiea 
 leagues, making an allowance for the current which aU 
 ways fets to the caftward, and they will be up to Father 
 point or near it ; and if the weather is thick, may haul 
 to the fouthward,^nd after getting foundings^ the water 
 pioalens from thirty five to twenty and eighteen fatboma 
 in a fliort diftance, fuch as a mile, they are not up to 
 Father point, and may lafely run four or five miles high* 
 er, but if they get foundings and the water gradually 
 flhoalens from thirty five to thirty, twenty five &c.,<&:c. 
 in a diftance of three or four miles they are up.tq.the 
 point, an4 may make the fignal fpr a pilot, liandi^jg no 
 nearer than tenor twelve fathoms, as they will then b9 
 only two miles from fliore, but ihould the weather be 
 dear, they will fee the boufes and may ni<lke fis &.ee aa 
 they chufe, as the ihore.is all bold* 
 
 The diftance from Cape Chatt to the Weft part of Fa- 
 ther Point is as near as I could meafure it, twenty fouf 
 leagues and from thence to the anchoring ^ace ai Bic 
 Ifland is fixteen miles. I run the diftance with a ftcady 
 Eafterly wind-rrmade an allowance for the current of five 
 miles and I am fure any ihip may run the fame nfith fafety. 
 
 Ships being oflF Uttle Mittis will fee the high lan4 
 which is to the Southward of Cape a I'Orignal, but the 
 Cape itfelf and the Ifland of Bic being much lower, wont 
 be feen. Off Mount Camille, Bic Inland may be feen very 
 plain in clear weather. 
 
 Being informed two years ago by a fellow Mafter, that 
 he miftook the Ifland of fiarnaby for the ifland of Bic 
 (he haying only been once here before, and that many 
 years ago) he haul'd to the Southward and when be foan4 
 jiis miftake. After vearing the fliip hejuft weather'd Bar- 
 naby Ifland. 
 
 Now fliould a ihip be running up in thick weather, and 
 not be certain of her diftance, if flie b near Father Point 
 pit cannot approach the land without gradually ihoaling 
 
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 her water-^confe^ikentfy keeping the lead going, and 
 being in nine or ten fathoms water, and making an ifland 
 fuddenljr to the Southward, it mud be fiarnaby Ifland. 
 
 And if falling in with an ifland fuddenly without 
 having hove the lead in any bearing to the Weftward of 
 W. S.W. onecaft of the lead reduces it to a certainly, for 
 frotrt W S. W. to Weft, Barnaby will have only from feven 
 to five fathoms, and the ifland of Bic wilt have in the 
 lanie bearings from fifteen to twelve fathoms. 
 * And if the lead is kept going and no foundings, and 
 Ihen falling in with land fuddenly a 'head, it mud be 
 Bicqtiett which lays to the Northward of Bic Ifland, for 
 therfe if deep water in the ftream of Bic^uett and when 
 it bears S. W. a half mile there is no foundings. In ths 
 firejim of Bicquett, I mean wh^nit bears W S W. arid if 
 they fliould have ten fathoms water and fee no land they 
 triU haul ofiFto the Northward, or i^im fof Bic as they 
 
 ' think proper, if Itrangers, the fafeft way i o haul to the 
 Northward, if they run, keep iii nine or ten fathoms wa- 
 ter and Heer W. $• W. and W. by S, according to the 
 depth of water, that courfe will lead to the Southward 
 of Bic, a|ad if they get fight of the reef on the ifland 
 which is always above water, fleer Weft one mile and 
 half, ailid anchor in eleven or twelve fathoms. 
 
 The frhall Ifland of Bicqoet, fays due North from the 
 l^ody of Btc ifland one mile diftant. Due Eaft from Bic- 
 quctt three quarters of a mile, and N^W. from the Eaft 
 
 * iAd of the reef which lays S£. ftdm Bic Ifland, lays a 
 dangerous reef of- rocks quite dry at low water fpring , 
 trdes, and the foundings are very unregular near it. In- 
 deed all the way from the Ifland of Bicquett to the £aft- 
 ward of the S. £. reef of Bic, the ground is very uneven, 
 having ten, twelve and in foroe places five fathoms, and 
 all foulground : fo that fiiips beting near Bic Ifland and 
 not acquainted, and thick weather, flbouldftandofFandon 
 IP the Northward of the Ifland and wait for clear weather. 
 
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 ' The river being twenty two miles wide from' Bicquet^ 
 to Point Mille Vache, fboal on the North (ide. *' 
 
 The ground between Bic ao^ Bicquett is very rocky 
 and no channel between them, except for thofe acquain- 
 ted. W S W. three fourths of a mile from Bicquett lays 
 a large reef of rocks dry at half ebb, S W. from this reef 
 a quarter of a mile lays another reef dry at laft quarter 
 ebb« between ihefe reefs and the Ifland, it is all rocky and 
 foul ground, and the tides run very uncertain, but fliips 
 falling in with Bicquett may give the Weftermod reef a 
 birth of one mile and fteer S. W. and S. S» W. and they 
 will crofs the channel in twelve fathoms, and as they draw 
 near the Weft-end of the main ifland of Bic: haul more 
 to the Southward and crofs the fpilt which runs to the 
 Wellward of it in what water they pleafe, feven fathoms 
 is a fair way, and when they deepen the water to twelve 
 fathoms they will have the palTage to the Southward of 
 the ifland open and may anchor as before direded. The 
 ifland of Bic h compleatly Tursounded with racks and on 
 the North N. W« and N. N. £. fides much worfe (ban to 
 the Southward, the reefs on the North (ide are feen in eve- 
 ry dire£iions extending as before mentioned quite tO| 
 Bicquett, 
 
 But to the fouthward of the Ifland; the foundings from 
 the Ifland to the main are very regular, and is a good fafe 
 place to ride in with good ground tackle* 
 
 Tide flows at Bic Ifland, full and change | o*clock|i 
 and at one hour of flood, in fpring tides the flood bends 
 to the weflward and runs fair through to the fouthward 
 of the Ifland, but near the wefl end the laft quarter flood 
 fets N. W^ and round the w6ft end and a little to the 
 northward llhe tide fets gradually round from N. W. 
 to N. £• and all the ebb fets ftrong N. £. fo much fo 
 that fliips being two miles S. W. from the Weft end of 
 the Ifland and little wind, they would drive between 
 Bicqueite and the main Ifland^ and muft be careful to 
 
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 lei their anchor go in time« for ihoalcl they he caught 
 clofe in between them with a w elderly wind it would bf 
 difificult to get out again* 
 
 J. LAMBLY. 
 j^nuary^ 1808. 
 
 '1^2, 
 
 DireSUonsfor Sailing from Cape MontpelUs (or Point 
 
 ^ Deamon) to Poitft MilU VacheSf on the North side 0/ the 
 
 - river Saint Lawrence^ 
 
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 X. The land to the eaftward of point Deamon and the 
 
 point itfelf, is much lower than the land 'to the weft ward 
 of it, it lays from Cafie ChattH. by W. | W.diftane 
 eight leagues and a half* 
 
 From Trinity Bay up to the point, the land lays S. 
 Vf,hy S. two leagues, between them thecoaft is full of 
 inall (andy coves with three ledges of rocks, about a 
 quarter of a mile from the (hore £ven fathoms water, a 
 ^ir way without them* The land to the weftward of 
 the Point tends N. W* and forms a fmall bay where 
 Ifiiall veifela fometimes lake ihelter from N. £• winda 
 pf no ufe to large fhips. 
 
 ^ ,Weft by Northf five leagues firOm Point Deamon lays 
 fhe entrance of Saint Nicholas harbour, between them 
 ^njl 0ve miles to the eaftward of Saint Nicholas harbour, 
 isGoodboo river of no ufe to (hipping, except to pro- 
 cure provifiom oocafionally, the K. W. Company baa 
 ^ foiall (cttletnent kttt of two or three houfes* 
 ^. At the entrance of Saint Nicholas harbour, veflela 
 inay find ihelter from wefterly wiiids, being to the weft« 
 ward of the harbour and bearing op for it, &e Jiarbonr ia 
 jtnown by having all the land to the weftward of it dry 
 and barren 1 the wood being all burnt of the mountaina» 
 ))ut on the £aft fide of the entrance the mountains are 
 ^Ugfceii a^^ full of tteea* Jlvn boldly, in between 
 
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 the Ibttfnt cape d(id gjt^hn oh^, fte eri^g abdtit ]^on^, und 
 the low point , on the Weft fide the entratite WHI appear 
 like a fmall I (land, fleer for iU ^ rinall woodea croft is 
 ereded on it and ai draw near it, will eafily be feen and 
 then yOM ^\\\ fee a large reef of rocks running S. W« 
 from the eaftermoft point of the harbour, oppofite to 
 which on the land to the weflward lays anoher teef, 
 this reef covers at high water, but the large one is al« 
 Ivays above Water, anchor a little within the ftreamof 
 the eaftermoft ; in 6 fathoms at \oW leaser, there is a dif- 
 tance of about one mile between the points ^ / thefe two 
 reefs ; and both very bold, ten fathoms clofe i > the eaft- 
 ermoft and four fathoms ciofe to the weftermoft, you will 
 then be a fmall quarter of a mile from the point with 
 the crofs on it, this point h very bold, round it to th« 
 N. W. lays the Great Bafon^ 
 
 One hundred yards within the Crofs begins a barr^' 
 ifith only ten feet water on it at low water, and lays quite 
 acrofs the entrance, and compleatly blocks the entrance 
 up from large fliips, this entrance is no where (within the 
 point) two fiiips length wide at low water 3 but about a 
 quarter of a mile higher the channel grows wider, and 
 half a mile from the entrance the bafon in half a mile 
 Wide with room to moor fifty fails of the line in from ten 
 to twelve fathoms water good ground. 
 
 The Bafon is about two miles long from the head to 
 the £aft point of the large reef at the entrance, but it is 
 a very bad outlet for fliips bound to the weftward, as an 
 eafterly wind blows right in, and the land all around it 
 is very mountainous, fo that there is no getting inov oat 
 with canrafs (et, in fquare rigged veflels. \ : 
 
 Small veflels may haul along fide the locii juft withm 
 the eiltrance at the mouth of a fmall deep cove on the 
 Weft fide of the harbouri and lay in ten feet at low wa« 
 ten thisisirrer/ Ms harbour for fmall ctftfti andfuch 
 
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 18 
 
 us tre quick wilh their canvafs, but (hips had better an- 
 chor in the bay at before dire6fcecl« 
 
 In going into the bafon, keep clofe round the Weft 
 point and keep clofe along the Weft iide, as the Eaft fide 
 is quite dry at low water, and the channel is no where 
 two (hips lengths wide as before mentioned. 
 
 Soundings* 
 
 The bank juft to the fouthward of the Eaft reef, and 
 all along the (bore is very fteep, dropping into fifteen, 
 twenty; thirty and fifty fathoms in the diftance of 50O 
 yards from the reef. 
 
 This large reef completely drys at low water, and 
 quite ihuts the bafon from eafterlv and foutherly winds 
 and makes the bafon a very fafc plac •. This reef ex- 
 tends in the dire6^ion of S. W. by S. from the Eaft fide 
 oF the harbour, a large quarter of a mile long. 
 
 The tide flows at half paft 12 o'clock full and change, 
 and rifes 1 1 feet in fpring tides and 7 feet in neap tides. 
 
 The flood in fpring tides, runs to the weft ward a- 
 bove two knots paft the entrance, and this is to be oh* 
 ferved all along the North fliore, up to the point of 
 Mille Vache, from point Deamon. 
 
 Manicougan Bay and Great Shoal. 
 
 Five leagues and a half Weft from St. Nicholas har- 
 bour, lays the Eaft point of the entrance of Manicou- 
 gan Bay. The fliore between them is all bold and roc- 
 ky with forty fathoms water within 500 yards of the 
 rocks. The land is all high rugged burnt capes, up to 
 the Bay and quite barren. The Eaft point of the en* 
 trance of the Bay and a large cape two miles and a half 
 Eaft of it, form a round bay ; on .the N. W. fide 9f 
 which, (and two miles and a half N. £. from the Eaft 
 point of the entrance) is a fmall river which runs between 
 two high hilis clofe to the fliore, when that river bears 
 
 N. 
 
19 
 
 N. N. W. (it is then open), and the Weft point of Ma« 
 nitougan Bay bearing W. by S. five miles, is a certain 
 mark of the £aft end of Manicougan great flioat, which 
 ends in a fpitt, and dry/ at low water, fpring tides, and 
 is all rocks. The North edge of the fhoal then runs from 
 this fpitt W, N. W. quite to the N. W. part of the Bay. 
 The £aft fide of the fhoal runs oflFfrom the fpitt South 
 two miles, and then W, by S. and Weil, fix teagues> and 
 a half. 
 
 When the fmall river above mentioned bear^i N. M* 
 W. (and you mean to go into the Bay, and being'^rlofe 
 in to the northward, for the Eaft fpitt only lays four 
 miles and a half from the river). Edge ofip to the fouth* 
 ward until a Cove which lays to the N. W. of the Eaft 
 point of the entrance, comes open of that point bearing 
 N. W.by W. ^W. then fteer that courfe, and it will 
 lead you into the Bay," the channel is very narrow, be* 
 tween the Eaft point and ihe Great Shoal, and a bar runs 
 acrofs from one to the other, with ten feet water on it at 
 low water. 
 
 The fouth fide of the Eaft point is quite rocky and 
 they run off loo yards from it. Run up half a mile to 
 the W.N. W. of "them and anchor on the eaft fide 
 (clofe to it) in fixteen feet at low water and moor, as 
 there is not room for a fmall veflel to fwing fafely. 
 
 The eaft fide of the eaft point of the entrance quite to 
 the fmall river is all flat and rocky for one mile off to the 
 eaft ward of which, fmall vcffels may find (helter from 
 wefterly winds, in four fa thorns, but if caught with an 
 eafterly wind and flood tide they would not be able to 
 clear the eaft point of the fpitt of the great flioal. 
 
 In approaching the bar from the eaft ward, the foun- 
 dings are very irregular. 'You fall from fixty to twenty 
 fathoms, 'then ten and four fathoms, clofe to the bar, and 
 from the bar down to the eaft fpitt on th& north edge of 
 the flioal, there isfeven^nd ten fathoms dole to the brea- 
 kers, B 8 When 
 
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 When at anchor in the fiay, the channel betireenth^ 
 edge of tb"- (hoal and the caft fide of the bay ii very 
 narrovr, and the gr^at flioal to the South S. W. and 
 Weft, is com pit rely dry, and fcr three milei to (he $• W9 
 the breflkori are feen. 
 
 At anchor, Mount Camille is juft open of the weft 
 pointof the Bay braring S. W. by S. At high water 
 there is ten fret water quite acrofs the fiay on the flatt f 
 which i« thre • mites acrofs. 
 
 The flood tid. • run strong into the Bay, and the ebb th^ 
 icontr ry. The Bay from the anchoring place* runs weft 
 one mile then N. W. two miles, and N* N. E. half 4 
 inile ; at the head are two fmall Rivers* and the Bay ia 
 ^bputone mile wide acrofs at the h. ad* 
 
 Manicougan point fo called begins at the point which 
 forms the Weft point of the Bay, and extends from Wf 
 S« W* to W« by N. four leagues. The land is much 
 lower on this point than any near it, and is eaiily known 
 by its fandy appearance, being ail fand with a fin^ 
 beach all along, but very flat. 
 
 The utmoft extent of the Great Shoal from this point 
 |o the fouthward does not exceed four miles and a half^ 
 but is every where fo fteep, on the fouth fide that it i^ 
 impoflible to approach it with the lead, there is thirty 
 fathoms within a quarter of a mile of it, and fomr places 
 ^fty fathoms y^ithin loo yards, it is the fanie on every 
 part of it. . 
 
 On fliore on the point the tides ebbs nearly one mile 
 from high water mark, and the ihoal for another mile has 
 only two feet water on it. In ftrong winds breakers are 
 to be feen three mile^ off. I think it is the moft dange* 
 rous place I have ever feen and ihoiild by no means b* 
 made free with by firangers* 
 
 The tide flQ\ys full and change one o'clock, and rises ele- 
 ven or twelve JFeet in the fpnng and eight feet in' the neap. 
 Ff om ihft gaft Jpju p{ tJ^ i^Qftl it extends W.by S^ 
 
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 «nd Weft fix leagues And a half, and al (be weft eod it 
 turni into the bay Dei Outardet (which it the name of 
 the bay to the weftward of Manioougan point) and lays 
 three miles from the land* and then joint a flatt which 
 runf completely round Bay dei OutardcSf and join3elli- 
 amites flart, at that point, Bellfamitea point ii the 
 name of the weft part of Bay dei Outardei, and lays due 
 weft four league! frpm Manicougan point* After fliipa 
 are two leaguei to the weftward of Manicougan point* 
 they may ftand into the Bay des Outardei to withia two 
 miles and a half of the fhore, but no nearer, as the flatt 
 runs off one mile and a half, and very fteep too. 
 
 In the north part of Bay des Outardes, lays two rocky 
 iflands, but they lay clofe to the main: Outard river, 
 lays between thefe two iflands and Manicougan point, but 
 of no ufe to fliipi, the entrance is quite" blocked up by 
 fand banks. 
 
 In this Bay the ebb tide is flack and the flood tide 
 ftrong, fliips will allways fgain ground in this Bay, but 
 ftand no nearer than two miles, or two miles and a half* 
 
 Three miles to the N £« from Belfamites Point laya 
 another river, but the entrance is compleatly fliat up by 
 fand-banks. 
 
 Ships in rounding Belfamites Point fliould give it a birth 
 of three miles. A fteep dangerous fandy ftioal quite fur* 
 round the point, but the nearer the ihoal th; ftrongei 
 the flood. 
 
 From Belfamites Point to Point MtUe Vachef the bearii 
 ing is W. by. S. diftant (even leagues. 
 
 Between thi.m lays Vali Bay. This Bay is quite cleaii 
 and bold to within one mile of the fiiore; in the N» £, 
 part of this Bay ftands Jerome Ifland. The N. W. Com^ 
 panv has a fmall fettlement here, and is ufed by fmall 
 veflels but of no ufe to ihipping. Juft to the £aftward 
 of Jerome Ifland is a remarkable white patch in the land, 
 fvhtch in fine weather looks much like a large Church 
 
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 and is a fare mark far the ifland, and tnoch fooner feen 
 than the ifland in ^oing for it* Sbipi may make free with 
 this Bay quite up to* Point Mill Vache, but they muft 
 
 J|ive that point a birth of two miles and half, aa a fteep 
 andy flioal furroundi it like BelUamitet Point* 
 
 In Vail Bay and to the weftward of Jerome I Hand there 
 it a river open when it bean N. W. Ships falling into 
 this Bay and feeing this river open, will be fure the point 
 to ihe £aftward of them is Bellfamites and not Manicou- 
 gan as there is no river open in that bearing, in any part 
 of this coaft but this one. 
 
 I mention this that flrangers may be certain where they 
 are, (hould they fall iuddenly in with this part of the 
 coaft after thick weather, at the fame. time feeing Jerome 
 Ifland with the white buildings on it — Obferving that 
 there is two iflands in the N. £. part of Bay des Outardes, 
 and only one in this Bay, and much larger than the other 
 two, 
 
 Bellfamites Point bears from Father Point (the Pilots 
 Rendezvous) N. J £• diftant thirty two miles, and from 
 Barnaby Ifland N* by £• diftant thirty five miles. I have 
 meafured this diftance, as near as poffible, many times* 
 
 Three miles to the £aftward uf Point Mille Vache is 
 a fmall river with a fettlement of two or three houfes, be* 
 longing to the N. W. Company, called Portneuf. Three 
 miles to the £aftward of this fettle ment, and to the Weil- 
 ward of the large river open in the N, W. is two fmall 
 Iflands but they lay clofe to the land and dry from the 
 ihore. 
 
 When abreaft of Point Mille Vache or- near it the 
 Ifland of Bic will then bear S. by £• and diftant twen- 
 ty two miles. 
 
 The tide flows at Mille Vache Point tiie fame as at Bic 
 full and change three o'clock, 
 
 General 
 
23 
 
 General Remarks for Skips coming up with con* 
 
 trary winds. 
 
 Being far enough to the Weftward to weather the ifland 
 of Anticudi, Ihip.^ (houtd always (land to the Northward 
 and keep within ihree or four leagues of the land quite 
 up to Point Deamoo, »^ the current doei not fet down 
 fo flrong owing lo the projr£lion of the land at Point 
 Deamon, hut on the South (hore and in the Marrowsy 
 heiween Point Deamon and Cape Chatt, the current con« 
 ftantly (et down, and with a frefli Weftei^ly wind much 
 llronger than at other timei* 
 
 Confequently come up on the North fide of the river 
 and go down on the South 'fide* The land from Seven 
 Iflandi up to Point Deamon is all very hold, and the nea« 
 rer the (ironger the tide to the Weftward, and (hips will 
 always get ground, and find fmooth water ; but on the 
 South (hore or in the middle it muft be a faft failing 
 (hips tp hold their own. 
 
 After getting up to Trinity Bay, and the (hip fails faft« 
 wuh the advantage of a dood tide and keeping cloje in 
 to the North (hore, they may pethaps get through the 
 Narrows, (but if the (hips fails badly it is of no ufeto 
 attempt it) as foon as through keep clofe to the (bore, 
 quite up to Saint Nicholas harbour, and then avoid 
 the Great Shoal of Manicougan* 
 
 In (landing further to the louthward than mid channel 
 the tide will be of little ufe, as the flood never bends to 
 the weftward on the fouth (hore, (on this part of the coa(i} 
 except clofe in, and when the ebb tide comes down, (hips 
 will loie more than they have got on the flood. 
 
 The only places of. danger on the north fide are Ma* 
 nicougan, Bellsamites, and Point Mil)e Vache flioals, 
 ^ avoid thefe places and keep as clofe to" the land as yoa 
 pleafe, the nearer the more tide in favour. 
 
 Ships being off Bellsamites point and the wind at Weflt 
 and a flood tide may (land to the S. S* W. and fetch Fa* 
 
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 ther Points iild gei a pilot, as tAanjr of thrtn hirt dtkif 
 fmall boats and cannot coUtt acro(s, and by keeping tod 
 tkyfe to the north ihore in hazey weather they won't fed 
 the fhipft. 
 
 Yet it i$beft to keep the North fhore a board till they 
 can fetch Father Point, but jQiould no pilot be at Father 
 Point fliips may fafely beat op to Mille Vache point and 
 erofs to Bio and anchor aa before directed, and wait for 
 pilots coming down, 
 
 Sould fhtpi be up to fiic idand, and clear weather 
 and fair wind, and not chufeto anchor, and no pilots to 
 be had, there or at Father point. Steer from Bic Ifland 
 W. S. W. for Greets Ifland, giving the South fliore, a 
 birth Of two miles and a half. From Bic to Green Ifland 
 the diftance ii nine leagues ^nd a half. 
 
 Between them lays the Razade Rocks, Bask idand^ 
 •nd Appl€ Iflands, from Bic Ifland to Bark Ifland (which 
 is a Round Ifland quite bold to the northward) the bea^ 
 ring is nearly W. S. W. ^S. diif ant 6ve and a half or 
 fix leagues. About one mile and a half fiom the mairl 
 end £• S* £. two miles from Bask Ifland are the Rasadd 
 Rocks. There are two of them they fay N. £. and S W4 
 of each other, one mile apart, nine fathoms water leads 
 without them. Midway between Bask ifland and Green 
 Ifland lays Apple Ifland, a barren cluflfer of rocks (Bask 
 Ifland is full of trees and otie mile and a h<»lf long). 
 
 Two miles of^, and fourteen fathoms are a fair way to 
 Green Ifland; give Green Ifland a birth of one mile to 
 •void a ledge of rocks which lays N. £. by N. from the 
 Light Houie, three fourths of a mile off, and ti dry aft 
 lew water, then fteer S, W. by W* for Hare Ifland. If 
 you^pafs Green Ifland with a Tpring ebb tide and frefh 
 Wind, the fe» Will appear as if it was broken Water^ but 
 there is no danger. It 'u owing to the ftrength of thd 
 tide aiid deep Watef* 
 
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 fteer 
 
 fteer S. W.^W. White Iflaod will then be in fight b^a* 
 ring W. by S. and Hare Idand with the Brandy Pot 
 Iflands open to the foathward of it bearing W. S. W. 
 'Give the Brandy Pot a birth of three cables length, and 
 run from a half to one mile above them and anchor in 
 from five to ten fathoms, according to the fi2e of the 
 fhip. Should the wind ihift to the Weilward and (hips 
 be up to White Ifland and the tide being done, ftahd 
 to the fouthward into nine fathoms or towards White 
 Ifland into fix or (even, and anchor, with good ground. 
 
 This is fuppofed to be clear weather and fair wind| 
 and (hips not chafing to anchor at Bic and lofe time, may 
 fafely run to Hare Ifland, but if the weather is hazey 
 and the Ifland not to be feen plain, (hips may heave too 
 and drive very fafely from Bic, to Balk Ifland, with re- 
 gular foundings to the fouthward, fourteen fathoms if 
 fair way. 
 
 ^ There is fome pilots live on (hore at Three Piftolei pa- 
 ri(h, and one at Green Ifland parilh, on the main, and 
 fometimes fliips may happen with them there. 
 
 The channel between Red Ifland and Green Ifland, is 
 fix miles wide, but Red Ifland is very low and (hoai for 
 two miles oflP, to the fouthward, no (Iranger (houldat* 
 tempt this palfage without a pilot, or fair wind and clear 
 weath?r. 
 
 The north fide of the (hoal on Green Ifland, abreaft of 
 the Light houle, and Bask Ifland, and the high land to (he 
 fouthward of the cape a I'Orignal, are m a dire6l line 
 of each other, bearing £. N. £• ^N. therefore keep the 
 high land jufl open of Bask Ifland, and you will clear 
 the reef. 
 
 Tide flows at Green Ifland, four o'clock, full and 
 change, and flows tide and quarter tide. 
 
 Ships runing to the fouthward of Bic Ifland, or sea- 
 ting into It from the weftward, will (land no further to 
 the fouthward than .Mount CamUie, juft open of the 
 
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 r ifiape a rOrignal, and to the northward, with Mount 
 ^miUei open to the Touthward of the Ifland of Bic« 
 rand there is no danger. The iituation of the Tranfport 
 ^ itoc'k* is not accurately known, I beleive, though i|[ien« 
 ^ij^onrd in all the Charts I have Teen. ' * 
 
 But this I am fu re of, that Mount Camille, kept as 
 ritrt^cd, will lead clear of all danger, 
 
 jMouot Camille will appear the highed land by far, 
 then in fight to the ^. £. k 
 
 tn running out to the weftward, keep the Mount mid- 
 Ivay between the Cape and Ifland. 
 
 I have looked for two years at every opportunity to 
 "fiftd the above rock, but never could, but when ever I 
 46 find it I will immediately make it public. 
 
 Gribn Island* 
 
 The tight Hbufe, lately buiH on Gnecn Ifland ftands 
 ^4HI a point on the N. £• part of the ifland, and pfoje6l;s 
 confiderably to the northward of the ifland, fo that in 
 tii&€t eoming up or going down« thehoufe appears much 
 •like a ihip. Green Ifland is about nine mile& long 
 ifom the eztremicy of the eafl reef to the end of th<; 
 Mef ^hichruiia N. W. froih the weft end of the ifland. 
 Small veflels may find flielier from eafterly winds, to thb 
 Ibuthward of this reef in three fathoms at low water, but 
 Hhte paflage to the fouthwardof Green Iflahd, drys tothn 
 miiiil) at low water, faring tides. The mourkain ro ihie 
 S. W. from th« end of the reef, on the weft end 6f Green 
 Ifl^d is cabled Cacana, in running from this Cape to the 
 Pilgrims, keep in nine fathoms water to avoid two \t4^ 
 gtk 6i rocks which cover at high Watfet, <Jali*d t*erccy 
 Rocb, they lay in httle to tht notthwafd 6f the dream ^ 
 ^^atana aboQt three itiileii. 
 
 Thb #ollb#mg b^aringk wtr& tAken from the ^ight 
 Hii^uk, ^ Grifett la^nd* Th^ body df Red lHntdi 
 
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 N. W. by W. I W cliftancc eftimated at feVeti ih\Ui4 
 The North end of the fhoal off the light hou fe ^. fi/b)^ N, 
 diftant three fourths of a mile, "the Brandy JPot lAailch^ 
 which lay to the fouth#ard of Hare Ifland S. W. by #• 
 <|- W. diftant five leagues. -.7 
 
 And the weft end of the reef On the weft end of Green 
 Ifland S. W. ^W. Green Ifland is very bold from the 
 Light houfe quite t6 the epd of the reef oh the weft en^, 
 and fhips may go along within a quart^ of a mile olTtbe 
 Ifland, l*'rom Bic to Hare Ifland^ the dire^iohs are con* 
 tinued as frequently {hips lall to the wellward of Aie^ 
 and are obliged to tun, and by obferving tnem, (hips may 
 fafely run to Hare Ifland and come to anchor, in cle^r 
 weather* The Ligbt houfe on Green Ifland is to be a 
 guide for fllips, bOth in coming up and ' going down, to 
 avoid Red Ifland, which is a very dangerous place, but 
 as tbe author liever was on ihore there, he can fay no- 
 • thitig <:er tain with refpe^ to the ihoals which wholly (nr* 
 rounds that Ifland. '^•^* 1^ 1,, 
 
 J, LAMBiVii 
 January, 1808* 
 
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 t)ifeRionf to anchor in Trinity Bay i 
 
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 The Bay lay: N. £. by N. diftant two leagues and half 
 frbin Point Deamon, the fliore between them is all fmall 
 fandy Coves with three large rocks laying in the diftance 
 always above water. Keep in feven fathoms water, and 
 your will go to the Southward of thefe reefs, they lay i^ 
 half mile from the land. 
 
 Trinity Bay has two large rocks laying off the N. E» 
 point of the Bay. They have no paffage between them 
 and the Nothermoft one drys to t\ke main in fpring tides—* 
 the Southermoft of them lays olf to the Southward of the 
 
 Point 
 
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 £tAnt A finall quarter of a mile. The bay it three milei and 
 alf round from point to point hy land, and about two miles 
 and half aerorifrom the Weft to £aft Point. There is a 
 
 'fiver in the Bay where (hips may uke water if in need, 
 
 and another ftream a half miU to the Weft ward of the 
 
 Weft Point of the Bay, with plenty of wood on the beach. 
 
 To anchor in the Bay come to a half mile to the £aft« 
 
 'ward of the Weft Point of the Bay on which ftands a 
 
 'Wooden Crols in from five to nine fathom« water, the 
 Point will then bear W. S. W. or S. W. by W. this is a 
 iTafe place to anchor with bad failing (hipi, with Wefter« 
 iy winds when they can't get through the Narrows, at 
 the ground it every where clean, at they may beat for a 
 iveek and not get two miles; for the current runs fo ftrong 
 
 'to ihe £aftward with Wefterly winds, that a faft (ailing 
 ihig will fcarce get through. 
 
 Small veOels may anchor in three fathoms at low wa» 
 ter. Juft within the reef of the weft point of the Bay,, 
 "bearing S« W« Juft to the weftward of this point, and to 
 the eaftward of the eaftermoft large rock, there it a ledge 
 of Rocki dry at low water, veflels Ihould not haul too 
 near for the point on which ftands the wooden crofs, till 
 they are abreaft of it, and they will avoid this ledge of 
 rocks or come na nearer than 4 fathoms, they lay due 
 S.W. from the point where the croft it, about three 
 fourths of a mile. 
 
 J. LAMBLY. 
 
 
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