«Facing the headland is this famous rock, as long as half a mile, covered with a flat surface embodred like a calm ocean, vertically split in two at one extremity and a few hunched feet further it opens in a gushing manner to form an arch, steep rock, straight like a falling weight, that has given it's name to the space and to the land that ends in the bay of Gaspe and shows prominence in the Gulf»
Arthur Buies, Chroniques 1