Field Notebook: Quebec 1908
Page 48
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Transcription
As we are just past the West End A fisherman catches a halibut of about 100 pounds and then leads on. I prefer to say that he once got one that was 9'3" long, 16" thick, and weighed a little more than 500 pounds. The wind is so light that it has taken me home to go to West End Lagoon. All the way from English Bay to June- Town Cliff the top of the island as one goes plain, About one mile east of Junction Cliff the land is probably 50-70 feet higher and then it slopes away again to the former level towards Cape Henry. Best of Junction Cliff is a large cave = Strawberry Cove The reef jutting out from Cape Henry ex- tends three miles and it is curious and alarm- ing to see the waves roll landward or far out to sea. For hours we saw this Cape and do not seem to fit ocean.