Note 14 — PETER KALM’s TRAVELS. (continued 5)
Johann Reinhold Forster translation
This has been confirmed, since Cape Breton is in the hands of the English, and it is reported that the strata of coals run through the whole isle, and some basset out to day near the sea-shore, so that this isle will afford immense treasures of coals, when the government will find it convenient, to have them dug for the benefit of the Nation. F. ↑