the usual uniform of his Majesty's Posts, brushwood and stinted spruce. And it projects N.W. into the Bay. The Seven Islands stretching in the form of a crescent about a league along this point defend it like a line of Battle Ships from the ravages of the waves and form one of the best Harbours on the Coast. We saw no fewer than fourteen widows with their orphans at this Post. The same number were at the I: Jeremie – and each of the other posts maintained about half as many who never failed wherever we came to present themselves before us to beg new dresses for they are entirely supported at the Expence of the Lessees while the Clerks and Engagés exercise their charity in supplying those Lasses wants of a different kind for which, for aught I know, they may be rewarded in Heaven but the Lessees here below have always the fruits of it. The Sunday trappings of those poor though wanton wenches, hung out to dry on the Branches, put us in mind of Rag fair. Lobsters are found in great plenty in the Bay of Seven Islands. It is astonishing that there are no oysters ever found on the North shore of the River S^t Lawrence. The River Moisy the next to the Sagunay in beauty & size falls six leagues below the Seven Islands into the S^t Law^ce

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