6 FISHES AND FISHING IN SUNAPEE LAKE. 



of Gardner Bay (Scotts Cove) it is nearly 2 miles. From Georges 

 Mills southwest to inner end of Herricks Cove, just below Lakeside, it 

 is 2.3 miles in a direct line. 



Dunnings Point marks the western outer end of what might be 

 considered a deep cove extending from the main lake northwestward 

 to Georges Mills, a distance of 1.6 miles. Some seven-tenths of a mile 

 below Dunnings Point is another point marking the upper or north 

 side of the entrance to Jobs Creek, a narrow cove extending about 

 seven-tenths of a mile inland northwestward, and only about one- 

 tenth of a mile wide at the entrance, although widening up some at 

 the inner end. 



Scotts Cove is a rather wide, deep bay. 



The lake may be considered to consist of two expansions connected 

 by "The Narrows," the larger one being the northern expansion and 

 the smaller the southern. The narrowest part of "The Narrows" 

 lies between Woodclyffe on the west side and Rowes Landing on the 

 east, a distance of about three-tenths of a mile, and at a distance of 

 about 2^ miles from Newbury. 



The southern end of the northern expansion is somewhat broken 

 up by islands of various sizes, the largest of which is Great Island, 

 which hmits the steamer channel on the west side. The island is 

 nearly one-half mile long by two-tenths wide, its southern end only 

 something less than two-tenths of a mile removed from the mainland 

 on the east side of the lake. Fishers Bay, directly west of this island, 

 is shallow, and the space between the island interrupted by reefs. 

 The real northern expansion may be considered to lie at the north 

 of Birch Point on the west and Echo Point (Cressy's) on the south- 

 east (the southern point of the outer end of Blodgetts Cove). Below 

 The Narrows the widest part of the lake is between the outlet of 

 Spectacle Pond (Sunapee Brook), a short distance above Edgemont, 

 and the east shore, a distance of about nine-tenths of a mile. 



The shores of the southern expansion are mainly rocky on both 

 sides, there being a small sand beach at Newbury and muddy shores 

 for a short distance at the mouth of Sucker Brook in Fishers Bay. On 

 the east side the water is rather shoal and strewn with bowlders and 

 heaps of bowlders locally known as reefs. The west side is fairly 

 deep except in coves. 



Above The Narrows, as previously mentioned, are a number of 

 islands, and there are numerous bowlders and reefs of bowlders 

 which probably were once small islands, with navigable passages 

 among them. 



On the east side of the northern expansion are extensive sandy 

 beaches, forming sandy shoals for considerable though varying dis- 

 tances out into the lake, on the outer edge of which there is usually 

 a rather abrupt descent into deep water. 



