DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN, WEST- 

 ERN, AND NORTHERN COASTS OF NEWFOUNDLAND, EXTRACTED 

 FROM SAILING DIRECTIONS FOR NEWFOUNDLAND, PUBLISHED 

 BY THE HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE OF THE U. S. NAVY DEPART- 

 MENT, UNDER THE TITLE "NEWFOUNDLAND AND THE LABRA- 

 DOR COAST, 1909." 



Bear island [Lat. 47 36' 30" N., Long. 57 22' 20" W.] is situated 

 in the entrance to White Bear bay, and northwestward -5 mile from 

 West point of Bear head ; its summit is a dark wooded cone 600 feet 

 high, and the island falls steeply on the southern and eastern, but 

 gradually on the other sides. The eastern and southern sides have 

 deep water close to them. On the southern side the cliffs are white 

 and bare for some distance above the sea, while the cliffs under Bear 

 head are dark. 



White Bear bay extends 10 miles in a northerly direction from 

 the northern point of Bear island to the freshwater brook at its head, 

 with an average width of 1,200 yards. The shores are steep, in many 

 places precipitous, 700 to 1,000 feet high, with deep water close-to. 



Ramea islands [Lat. 47 31' 30" N., Long. 57 21' 30" W.], the 

 eastern end of which lies southward, distant 3 miles from Bear head 

 of White Bear bay, consist of two large islands, with numerous 

 smaller islands, islets, rocks, and shoals to the southward and west- 

 ward of them. 



Great island, the eastern and largest of the group, is If miles 

 long in an easterly and westerly direction and 1,200 yards broad; its 

 northern coast is bold and slopes abruptly from rugged hills that 

 present an irregular outline. Gull hill, the highest of these hills, is 

 427 feet high, flat topped, and has a steep fall on its eastern side that 

 makes it conspicuous on northerly bearings. 



Numerous rocks and shoals on the southern side of Great island 

 prevent the passage to Eastern harbor being taken without local 

 knowledge. 



Northwest island, 400 yards westward of Great island, is 1-& miles 

 long in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction, about 900 yards 

 broad, and has several peaks ; Man-of-war hill, the highest, is 211 feet 

 high, and there is a bowlder on its summit. 



Light [Lat. 47 30' 30" N., Long. 57 24' 35" W.] A cylindrical 

 lighthouse, 35 feet high and painted red and white in spiral bands, 

 with a white dwelling attached, on Northwest head, which is the 

 southern point of Northwest, island, exhibits at 125 feet above high 

 water an intermittent white light showing thus: Light, one and a 

 half seconds; eclipse, one and a half seconds, which should be seen 

 from a distance of 16 miles in clear weather excepting on westerly 

 bearings, where it is obscured by the land. 



Ramea Colombier island, distant 1 mile west-northwestward from 

 Northwest head lighthouse, is 135 feet high ; it is one of the western 

 of the islands, makes as a cone from all directions, and is surmounted 

 by a flagstaff. 



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