Portneuf still owes several elegant buildings besides a Chapel in which his Holiness the Pope might not be ashamed to officiate. The point and Bay of Mille Vaches, so called from the large stones in the Bay resembling at low water a herd of Cattle, lie two leagues west of the Post. This Bay & point have of late years been as destructive to ships as they formerly proved to the seals which in November of 1775 were left in such numbers by the tide on these shoals that the Servants of the Lessees of those days slaughtered in the course of a few hours between two & three thousand of them the Oil extracted from which produced as many Pounds. It was then quite common to knock on the head from five to twelve hundred of those animals every year in the months of Nov^r and Dec^r, which is probably their copulating season – and this was called Un Echourie. But the Bank on which so much murder was committed at that time has been now many years worn away by the waves[.]

The Bay of Mille Vaches yields hay enough for a thousand Cows[.]

The 22^nd we did not go farther than the Post of Ile Jeremie which takes its name from the man who first settled here. It is

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