[Ganonc] DOCHET (ST. CROIX) ISLAND 131 
in breadth, is really but an arm of the sea, salt and tidal. Nearly 
midway of this estuary, and midway, too, between its banks, lies 
Dochet Island, in latitude 45° 07 44”, and longitude 67° 08° 03”. 
The deepest channel is on the eastward, thus making the island a 
part of the United States. 
The situation of the island is extremely beautiful. Both banks 
of the river, clothed with well-cultivated farms interspersed with 
lines and groups of trees and large areas of forest, slope upward into 
ridges and hills, culminating in Greenlaw and Chamcook, whose abrupt 
sides and rocky summits rise above six hundred feet from the tide. To 
the northward one looks into Oak Bay with its prominent island and 
distant shores framed by the nearer Devil’s Head, wooded and abrupt, 
and the lofty hills of the Canadian shore. To the southward beyond 
the widening banks, lies Passamaquoddy, and over it, faint and far, 
the low hills of Deer Island. Seen at its best, on soft summer days, 
there is much colour in the landscape, a bright blue sky and a deep 
blue sea, a dark green of the forest and a bright green of the fields, 
and here and there a red and a brown of the rocks. It is a goodly 
country, fair to see, the very perfection of quiet new world scenery, 
never losing its charm for those who have known it. 
The island is a very small one (Fig. 3), less than 300 yards (about 
one-sixth of a mile) in length in its main part, or less than 400 yards 
including the partially detached “ Nubbles,”+ and not over 125 yards 
in extreme breadth. It encloses in the main part about 5 acres. 
The highest point, on a rocky ledge a little to the east of its centre 
(Fig. 14), is about 52 feet above extreme high tide mark,? or about 
62 feet above mean tide level. From this point there is a slope in 
all directions, at first (on the rocky part) abrupt, but soon, (on the 
soil parts) more level. The entire island is, however, markedly tilted 
towards the westward, so that while the eastern shore is a continuous 
bluff rising nearly 40 feet above high tide, on the west it slopes in 
places almost down to high tide level. These features of slope are 
well illustrated in the accompanying photographs (Figs. 17, 18). The 
eastern bluffs of the island are of clay and sand, bearing a dense 
growth of small trees and resting upon granite rock except at the 
southern end, where an abrupt treeless bluff of sand without vegeta- 
tion has no visible rock, but only sand, beneath it. The low shore 
of the western side shows a thin soil resting upon rock, and bearing 
but a few scanty bushes and very small trees, while the remainder 
of the island, all fair soil excepting the rocky band of ledges across 

? Nubble is a word used frequently in this region for small semi-detached 
islets. 
? According to levels taken by myself. 
