There are many thrushes, stock-doves, and other birds.

To be short, there wanteth nothing but good harbours.' On July 2, the ships, sailing on westward from the head of Prince Edward Island, came in sight of the New Brunswick coast.

They had thus crossed Northumberland Strait, which separates the island from the mainland.

Cartier, however, supposed this to be merely a deep bay, extending inland on his left, and named it the Bay of St Lunario.
Before him on the northern horizon was another headland, and to the left the deep triangular bay known now as Miramichi.

The shallowness of the water and the low sunken aspect of the shore led him to decide, rightly, that there was to be found here no passage to the west.