McKenzie, James. Some Account of the King's Posts, the Labrador 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. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0017
into the Gulph three leagues west of the last mentioned Island. Though honoured with the Epithet of Great in Maps and Books we saw nothing to justify that appellation – the entrance is narrow & full of sand[.] She produces between thirty and forty tierces of salmon every year.
On the 29th we continued our journey from Mingan for thirty leagues to Napioshiboo or the man River where we arrived the 30th our course N.E. along a rugged shore as usual and among Islands. There is no harbour but for small craft & that in the River, which is difficult of entrance, at this Post. The Situation is pretty the banks of the river tho' sandy are green but the River herself is of the middle size[.] From eighty to an hundred tierces of salmon are annually caught here. The sand on the west of the Buildings has been left by the sea in deep furrows as at Mingan. The Buildings consist only of a dwelling House a Store and a shade. With respect to furs it may be ranked among the inferior Posts[.]
The 31st we now hastened towards the end of our Journey and the last of the Posts on the Seignory of Mingan, Masquaro where
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