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Pictou

Picton in Northumberland Strait is a

place of considerable importance in consequence othe

Coal Mines in the adjoining district, which it is the port of Shipment _ The town

with a population of about 3000 inhabitants is situated about there miles from the roadstead on the north side of the Pictor River, on the backs o shich there are numerous wharves and quers for loading coals; the cetrance to the river being

bar carrying 198th at low

bater

such a

a way

sorra kar

The roadstead does not admit of being protected by defensive works on land in

that ships lying there would be secure against attack by hostile vessels - It will therefore be advisable that ships frequenting the port during war should all pass up and anchor within the sock - The entrance, near the lighthouse, is little move be Effectually

than 150 yards wide, and may secured by a small defensible battery

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