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The rest of the passengers arrived much later on a schooner that appears
to have been sent purposely to fetch them.
Oct 12, Schooner
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Dolphin, (no captain shown), 13 days from Anticosti,
with 20 passengers, being the remainder
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of the people wrecked in the
Earl of Dalhousie.
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The News in Scotland
The shipwreck was even reported in the Glasgow Herald.
The ship Earl of Dalhousie, with emigrants from the Highlands to
Canada, was lost in the mouth of the river St. Lawrence, early in
September. All the lives on board were saved; but the unfortunate
passengers have most probably lost the greater part of their
effects. -- See Ship News.
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On the same page, under the title Ship News, appeared an expanded version of
this story.
SHIP NEWS
Greenock, Oct. 21. -- Arrived this morning, the Caesar, from Quebec;
sailed from thence on the 23
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, and got clear of the river on the 26th
September. On the 6th September the brig Earl of Dalhousie of Greenock,
Scott, master, from Fort William, with passengers, went ashore in thick
weather
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upon the Island of Anticosti, about 20 miles from the east
end of it, and became a total wreck. Part of the passengers had been
previously landed at Cape Breton, and the remainder (about 140) were
on shore where the brig was wrecked; but as the Caesar passed
Anticosti, coming down, Captain Scott had arrived at the island, with
two schooners, from Quebec, to take up the passengers. -- No lives
were lost.
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The Site of the Wreck
Anticosti Island is an immense table rock that looms up out of the
waters of the northern Gulf of the St Lawrence, crowned with dark impenetrable
forests. One author describes Anticosti as follows: "(…) Flanked by steep cliffs
and surrounded by dangerous reefs, the Island was once a sailor's nightmare,
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