Excerpt from Sailing Directions for the Gulf and River of St. Lawrence Full and clear directions are given in the following pages for entering the Gulf of St. Lawrence; for passing the Mag dalen Islands; for approaching the River either on the north or on the south side of Anticosti; and for navigating the Estuary of the St. Lawrence, under every change of circum stance, as far up as Bic and Green Island. Beyond those islands no stranger should venture to proceed without the assistance of a pilot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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...