which here opens her Jaws pretty wide being thirty leagues across to the South Shore.

The 27^th Passing the N.E. extremity of the Kings Domains at the Cormorants we entered early in the morning on the Seignory of Mingan and after sailing thirty one leagues along high steep rugged rocks on one hand & nothing but the open sea for most of the way on the other we arrived at the head Post of that Seignory the next day. The Situation of this Post appeared to us the most delightful we had seen in the course of our travels through this barbarous Coast. The Beach composed of hard sand and covered with turf is for six leagues level enough for a Coach & six to drive on – the Mingan River runs gently about an acre behind the Buildings till she falls into the Gulph a mile below them. The view before the Post it must be owned is a good deal obstructed by a cluster of Islands but this is in some Degree recompensed by the shelter they afford – the grass which grows on them and the numerous flocks of wild fowl that hatch round their edges[.] The Harbour is fit for seventy fours to ride in – and the Buildings, among which is a Chapel, are as good as any on the coast[.] [F]or some distance on the west of the Post the sand being left to the skirt of the wood in high ridges proves that the spot where

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