650 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA, 



Light [Lat. 47 36' 12" N., Long. 57 35' 13" W.]. A square light- 

 house, 47 feet high, rising from the gable of a dwelling, and painted 

 white with red roofs, on the summit of Board island, exhibits, at 207 

 feet above high water, a fixed red light which should be seen seaward 

 over an arc of 270 from a distance of 11 miles in clear weather. 



Cuttatt island, southwestward of Boar island and separated from 

 it by a channel 250 yards wide, that requires local knowledge for its 

 navigation, is 140 feet high, and its southeastern coast has bare, steep 

 slopes. 



Venils island, southward of Cuttail island and separated from it 

 by a channel 150 yards wide, with foul ground stretching from both 

 sides which requires local knowledge for its navigation, is 165 feet 

 high. 



A cove indenting the southeastern side of Venils island for 200 

 yards affords good sheltered anchorage for small craft in 3 fathoms 

 of water. 



Rencontre island, southwestward 300 yards from Baggs island, is 

 the highest of the Burgeo group; its western end rises to a con- 

 spicuous truncated cone, 269 feet high, covered with dark foliage. 



Gull island, situated mile eastward of Rencontre island, is a bare 

 rock 50 feet high, and steep-to on its eastern side, but foul ground 

 extends 150 yards off its western side. 



A rock, about 6 feet high, lies 150 yards northwestward of Gull 

 island, arid a shoal, with 13 feet of water over it, between the end of 

 the foul ground southwestward of Gull island and Rencontre rock. 



Rencontre rock, bearing 102, distant 350 yards from the southern 

 point of Rencontre island, has 7 feet of water over it. 



Morgan island, the northeastern end of which lies westward dis- 

 tant nearly $ mile from Boar Island lighthouse, is about 1,400 yards 

 long in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction, 350 yards wide, 

 138 feet high, moss-covered and undulating. 



Shoal water fringes its northern and northwestern coast; the 

 southwestern coast is bold-to ; the southern coast is encumbered with 

 rocks and shoals, arid a shoal extends 50 yards off the northeastern 

 point of the island. There are two coves on the southern side, with 

 the houses of fishermen around them. 



Little Barasway is a large bay which nearly all dries, with First 

 and Aaron arms, two inlets, extending to the eastward. The entrance 

 is nearly dry at low water, and in it rs a conical islet. 



The canal, a cutting connecting Little Barasway with Grandy brook, 

 is available for the fishermen's small boats from three-quarters flood 

 to a quarter ebb. 



Little Gut, northward 700 yards from Little Gut head, was an 

 entrance to Grandy brook, but it is now closed. 



Grandy brook is an arm of the sea extending from Little Gut 2 

 miles inland to the fresh-water brook at the head. 



The land eastward of Grandy brook consists of conical hills and 

 mounds, partially covered with stunted trees or whitened by former 

 fires, while that westward of the brook consists of ranges of hills with 

 cliff-faced summits and smooth, mossy slopes. 



Norman head, the northern entrance point of Little Gut, is a bare- 

 topped mound 93 feet high, with a spit of shingle extending from its 

 base into Little Gut. Westward of this head a long shingle beach, 10 

 feet high, with a grassy mound as its western end and two mounds at 



