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Superintendent, and his family, and five assistants, and is visited twice a year by a vessel sent from Halifax with provisions, clothing and other necessaries.

There are three houses on the Island, only one of which is inhabited, but in the other two, which are merely intended to afford temporary shelter, are deposited provisions &c, for the use of any unfortunate persons who may happen to be thrown ashore near them.

This establishment, although on so small a scale, has proved of extensive utility, as will appear from the accompanying plan, on which the names of some of the vessels which have been wrecked on the Island during the last twenty years, are marked ; but there is too good reason to believe, from the dead bodies, pieces of wreck, and articles of merchandise which are frequently washed on its shores, that this Island, and the dangerous sand bars which extend many miles from each end of it, have been the cause of destruction to a great many more vessels than are there named, during that period.

It is now however absolutely necessary that the Establishment should be encreased, and more abundantly supplied with provisions than it has hitherto