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Memorandum relative to Sable Island a dependency of Nova Scotia.
This Island, which has proved so fatal to shipping is situated in Lat: 44° N, and Long: 60°23N and is distant from the coast of Nova Scotia between seventy and eighty miles. It is about thirty miles in length and about two miles in breadth, and compsed entirely of loose sands.
It remained uninhabited until the year 1803, when, at the recommendation of the late Sir John Wentworth, then Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, an establishment was formed on it, for the support of which the Legislature of that Province have since annually granted the sum of £400.
This establishment has been the means of saving the lives of many hundreds of persons, who must have otherwise perished, as the Island produces spontaneously nothing fit for the nourishment of man.
The establishment at present consists of a
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