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Rh Cape Sable is the isolated jutty south of the island which Champlain found "very dangerous for certain rocks and reefs lying out nearly a mile in the ocean," and here Leif Erikson is thought to have landed. Concealed ledges and savage currents snarl at the keels of ships that creep along this notorious coast. Vessels steering a course twenty-five miles away from Seal Island (a few leagues west of Cape Sable) find themselves ten miles north of it, so overwhelming are the currents that eddy about the rounded point of the peninsula and carry into Fundy over the ledges of Seal Island, Devil's Limb, and Black Rock. One of the first steamers to cross the Atlantic, the 300-horsepower Columbia of the Cunard Line, went ashore on Devil's Limb while in transit between Boston and Halifax in 1843. Eighty-five passengers were put ashore on Seal Island and were later removed under the supervision of the Honourable Samuel Cunard who came from Halifax to the scene of the wreck.

The horse mackerel or tuna is caught in great quantities off the coast of the mainland and Cape Island. Nearly 200,000 pounds were taken in traps or weirs in the month of July, 1914, between Barrington and Yarmouth. When the tuna is harpooned—small ones weigh two hundred pounds here—the spear is attached to a rope wound around a keg. At the drawing of the herring nets a fish is cast out as bait. The tuna rises, is struck with a harpoon aimed from the