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1.4 Physiography
Renews is located on the cart c m f Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula about ')O
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lulometrer south of St. Jahn's. Although not one of the most pmrected hnrbaun on the
coarr. and not panieularly deep, ie inner reacher have offed safe anchorage a small
vessels for eenarier. Rocky oaureqr punctuate ~Uetcher of flxcobble berhes
thmughour much of the hubour.
A dom~nant featurn in Renews is Tbe Mount", a rrewnplar p s y and rock headland
jutting out fmm the shore, oppmrimely one kilometer fmm the harbour mouth (Figurn
2 and 31. While much of the meadow on The Mount is between 10 and Ism above sen
level. a k dmk -.isifon its south ride nrer some 25 m straight out of the mean.
Emhworks and half buried cannon barrels fmn wo eightrrnthsentury gun batteries that
once pmtceted the harbour fmm American privaleerr aze clearly visible on the west edge
of The Maunr. Depressions in the gmund mark a number of nineteenthscntvv house
locations.
The earllest reference for the nunc ''The Mounc' dacer to 1778 when Captain Roben
Pringlr of t k British Royal Engineen visited Renews in prepmion for he defence of
the harbour dunng the American Revolution. Ringle reLn a defmcm under
construct~on on " asp called the Mount" to defend the envance to tbe hnrbaur (O.N.
Ylh vol. 7 ff.153-1%). It is not difficultto perceive why this area raschorcn todefend