The Buildings of Godbout, like all those of the Kings Posts, are placed in a cluster without order or method as if they had dropt from the clouds on a low sandy point on the east side of the Godbout River the high chain of rocky mountains which guards the coast keeping with a surly look a respectable Distance behind this motley group. The River, in which between fifty & sixty tierces of salmon are annually caught in Nets, is but a few yards wide and so choked with sand that only small craft can enter her at high water. Wild fowl Codfish and Lobsters are got in great plenty at this place in the warm season. And the post may be reckoned among the best for furs & seal oil.

The 24^th at our usual early hour we were in our Canoe[.] On the 26^th A.M. we came to the Seven Islands and the same Day we rearched the Point aux Cormorans nine leagues further on. The Seven Islands are reckoned six and twenty leagues n: east of Godbout[.] In this distance we saw nothing remarkable excepting blue and raspberries which appeared plentiful wherever we debarked[.]

The Bay of Seven Islands is seven leagues in Circumference[.] The point on which the houses, which are placed in the same beautiful confusion as at Godbout, are built is low sandy & covered with

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