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 APPENDIX. A. weeds, and is sufficiently protected from easterly winds by Sect. VI. BnEAKSEA and MICHAILMAS ISLANDS. *e anchorage S. Coast. between SEAL ISLAHD and the first sandy beach to the westward of BALD HEAl), with the low fiat rocky islet bearin west, in six or seven fathoms sand and. weeds, should be preferred during the summer months; for the easterly winds then prevail, and sometimes blow strong, even as late as March; the anchorage is landlocked, excepting in the direction of E.b.lq, the only quarter to which it is ex- posed, and 'even in that direction the an� subtending the sea horizon is not gTeater than ten de/Tees of the circle, which is ef insignificant consequence. There is no water nearer to this anchorage than in. die sandy bay above ment/,Shed, but the distance is t6fiing for a ship that can send beats with men euough to protect themselves while employed in filling the casks, for notwithstanding the friendly cornmini/cation we have had with the inhabitants of this sound, they are not to be trusted, unless their character is difierent from the rest of their countryhen that we have seen. Water /8 procured at Princess Royal and Oyster Her- hours by digging holes at the edge ef the sand under the hills; but, at the latter place, the stream that we used out-, side e bar affords plenty, of excellent qual/ty, without the trouble of diiin . Over the bar of Oyster Harbour there is not more than ten and a half feet at low water, and in the neaps twelve feet at high water; but it is likely that, at sDrinG-tides, there may be fourteen feet, or perhaps more/f the wind is biowin into the harbour; but during the sprins high water always takes place at night, and it would not, therefore, be prudent to at- tempt to pass the bar at that t/me. A vessel intendin G to o  Oyster Harbour should anchor off the sandy beach immediately to the eastward of the en-

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