Belle Isle, a British island in the Atlantic, about midway between the NW. of Newfoundland and the eastern point of Labrador. About 21 miles in circumference, it is chiefly known as giving name to the adjacent strait on the south-west, which, with a length of 70 miles, and a greatest breadth of 11 miles, separates Labrador from Newfoundland, and forms the most northerly of the three channels between the Gulf of St Lawrence and the open ocean.—There is another small island of the same name in the Bay of Conception, Newfoundland.
Belle Isle
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 61
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