The " end is in lat 43 56 42", long.

60 71 15"; the end in lat 43 59 5", long.

59 42 A considerable sum of money is annually appropriated for the maintenance of an establishment on the island, consisting of a superintendent and assistants, with abundant supplies of every article likely to be required in case of shipwreck.

This establishment was formed in 1804, and kept up at the expense of the province until 1827; but in the latter year the British government un- dertook to furnish a sum equal to that voted by the province, and the establishment has consequently been greatly enlarged, and its usefulness much increased Its necessity is sufficiently attested by the melancholy fact, that 40 vessels were wrecked there in a few years, and in a single winter 200 people are stated to have perished on its coasts The surface of the island (according to the state- ments furnished to Judge Haliburton) is un- dulating ; and the colour is also very similar to that of the sea, from which it is not easily distinguishable.

Throughout its whole ex- tent there is not a single tree or shrub, and the only productions to be found upon it are a strong coarse grass, commonly known by the name of bent grass, or sea matweed, whortleberry, and cranberry bushes The grass is indigenous, and grows near the shore, or in low places ; and the cranberry bushes are confined to the deep hollows, which the violence of the wind has formed by scooping out the sand, and driving it into the sea.