Some Account of the Kings Posts, the Labradore Coast, and the Island of Anticosti by an Indian Trader residing there Several years with a Description of the Natives and the Journal of a trip through those Countries in 1808 by the Same Person.

If rocks form what is commonly understood by an iron bound shore the north of the River S^t Lawrence from the lower end of the Island of Orleans may be truly so called as nothing scarce is to be seen for hundreds of leagues but Mountains Caps and Cliffs in various shapes and figures some of which are covered with wood chiefly spruce and others present you their bald pates as if deprived of their covering by the unmerciful hand of Time[.]

After passing Cap Torment, which is five leagues in length, the Country for twenty five leagues more has undergone some Degree of cultivation being inhabited by Canadians and divided into four Parishes, the Little River, Bay S^t Paul, the Eboulemens and Murray Bay[.]

The last of these parishes belong to the

King's

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