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There is no shoal in this bay except close to the shore, but the water 

 is deep, and it is completely open to the southward. A bar of flat 

 rock, with 12 feet water over it, crosses the bay at mile from its 

 head; within the bar is a basin with 4 fathoms in it, and a good 

 anchorage for small craft. Large vessels anchor, sheltered from off- 

 shore winds, in 13 fathoms water off Pigeon island, 40 feet high, 

 close to the western shore, and just northward of Pillar rock, 35 

 feet high. Berry point, the western entrance point, is a low penin- 

 sula of red cliff with a small rock above water close to its southern 

 side. 



Seal islands are a group off Berry point. 



Big Seal island rises to a sharp pointed hill 130 feet high, and is 

 generally covered with grass and moss. Round island, close north- 

 westward of it, is a sharp cone about 70 feet high, and Offer Seal 

 island, close southwestward of Big Seal island, is 54 feet high, with 

 Black rock, 6 feet high, 200 yards off its southern side. 



The coast westward of Seal islands is bordered by rocks and 

 shoals, and except with local knowledge, vessels should not close the 

 land northward of the line of the summit of Wreck island in line 

 with Black rock of Offer Seal island, bearing 71. 



Bay le Moine [Lat. 47 37' 00" N., Long. 58 39' 00" W.] entrance 

 is west-southwestward about 2| miles from Seal Island head, and the 

 bay extends north-northeastward 4 miles; there is good anchorage 

 at its head. 



Fish head, the western entrance of bay le Moine, is a steep bluff 

 at the southwestern end of a hill which is 231 feet high, and faced 

 by gray cliff. 



Harbor le Gou lies westward of Fish head, and consists of a cove 

 to the southwest, and a basin to the northeast. A settlement of some 

 225 people is situated round the southwest cove. 



The coast between harbor le Cou and Rose Blanche point (said 

 to be a corruption of Roches Blanches), which bears 233, distant If 

 miles from Fish head, is a whitish gray rock, and generally steep. 

 Wash rocks, which dry 4 feet, lie a little more than 100 yards from the 

 coast at 1,600 yards northeastward of Rose Blanche point. 



Light [Lat. 47 35' 48" N., Long. 58 41' 30" W.]. A granite 

 lighthouse, 40 feet high, surmounting the corner of slate-roofed build- 

 ings, with one side and one end painted red and white in vertical 

 stripes, on the eastern head of Rose Blanche point, exhibits, at 95 feet 

 above high water, a fixed white light, that should be seen over an arc 

 of 169 between the bearings 62 and 253, from a distance of 11 

 miles in clear weather. 



The coast from Rose Blanche point trends north-northeastward 

 for mile; then turning westward and southward, it forms, with two 

 small bays at its head, Rose Blanche harbor. 



Cains island lies immediately westward of Rose Blanche point, 

 and is almost connected with it by rocky islets ; westward of the island 

 is the entrance to Rose Blanche harbor. This island is steep-to off 

 its western point and along its northwestern side; there are a few 

 houses and fishing stages on its eastern side, where it is separated 

 from the mainland by a narrow bay, almost a strait. 



Fog signal. A fog horn, placed on the south western point of 

 Cains island, gives two blasts every two minutes, thus: blast, six 



