This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ...The ground is good and there is not much tide. Esquamine Islets. Tides. Great and Little Bergeron Cuves. The course and distance across the Bay of Mille Vaches to two large rocks, which have three small ones nearly a mile to the S. W. of them, and are called the Esquamine Islets, is S. W. J W., nearly 12 miles. The coast to the south-westward, from the Esquamine Islets to Little Bergeron, a distance of 16 miles, consists of granite rock, steep and bold, and free from all danger, excepting a flat which occupies a bay on the west side of Cape Bondesir, but which does not extend above a quarter of a mile outside of a line joining the points of the bay, and is consequently very little in the way of vessels. There are upwards of 53 fathoms water close to the rocks along this part of the coast. The tides are regular, increasing in strength as we approach the comparatively narrow pass on either side of Red Islet. The flood is the stronger tide of the two, the ebb being deflected over towards the southern shore by the stream out of the great river Saguenay. The flood does not extend above 5 or 6 miles off the north shore below Bergeron, and the closer to that shore the stronger is the stream. Its rate at Point Mille Vaches, where it does not extend far off-shore, is from l to 2 knots; and off Bergeron from 2 to 3 knots, in spring tides. Great And Little Bergeron are two coves separated by a point. They are both full of large boulders, which dry at low water, and have small streams at their heads. Little Bergeron is of the two the most to the S. W. From it Green Island light bears S. by E. E. ll miles, and the Saguenay Cliffs, at the east point 6f entrance of the River, S. W. by W. 5 miles. I terminate this chapter at...