GEOGRAPHICAL DATA, 



Buoy. A white spar buoy, with a white St. Andrew's cross top- 

 mark, is moored in 3 fathoms at the southern end of the shoal ex- 

 tending southward from this rock. 



West Baldwin, 150 yards off the southwestern shore of the har- 

 bor, mile inside of Channel head, is a rock 50 yards in diameter 

 the shoalest part of which has 1 foot on it at low water. The passage 

 between it and the shoal extending from the rock westward of East 

 Baldwin is 80 yards wide. 



Buoy. A black spar buoy, with a black conical topmark, is moored 

 in 3^ fathoms at the northeastern end of the shoal water off West 

 Baldwin rock. 



Pancake rock, the eastern end of foul ground extending from the 

 shore of the harbor southwestward of Road island, is about 130 feet 

 in diameter and awash at low water. The channel between the shoal 

 off this rock and the foul ground off Road island is only 90 yards 

 wide, and it is necessary, therefore, to keep on the marks when pass- 

 ing through it. 



Buoy. A black cask buoy is moored at the northeastern end of 

 Pancake rock. 



Flagstaff hill, 222 feet high, and the highest land in this locality, 

 is surmounted by a large stone cairn, with a wooden triangle at the 

 top. 



Leading lights [Lat. 47 34' 28" N., Long. 59 07' 57" W.]. A 

 white pyramidal tower, 22 feet high, on the southwestern end of Road 

 island, exhibits an intermittent white light, thus: Light, one and a 

 half seconds; eclipse, one and a half seconds. 



A fixed red light is shown from the northern and western sides of 

 the lantern and is visible over the harbor, but not from seaward. 



A white pyramidal tower, 15 feet high, on the land, bearing 300, 

 distant 490 yards from the preceding lighthouse, exhibits at 81 feet 

 above high water an intermittent white light, thus: Light, one sec- 

 ond ; eclipse, one second. 



Beacons. Two beacons with diamond-shaped topmarks stand on 

 the shore northwestward of Pancake rock; and two beacons with 

 circular topmarks stand, one on the western end of Woody island, 

 and the other on the northeastern shore of the Bottom of port aux 

 Basques, the narrow inlet northwestward of Woody island. 



Caution. When the presence of ice renders it necessary, the buoys 

 in port aux Basques are taken up. 



Settlement. The settlement at port aux Basques consists of a few 

 wooden houses, a railway station, and some sheds for the storage of 

 goods; it may, however, become a place of importance. 



Communication. There is a railway to St. Johns. Steamers run 

 three times a week between port aux Basques and Sydney, Cape 

 Breton island, in connection with the trains ; steamers also run weekly 

 to St. Johns, and fortnightly to Halifax via Bras d'Or lakes, Cape 

 Breton island. The steamers go to the railway wharf which lie.s along 

 the mainland, southwestward of Woody island. 



There is telegraphic communication, and both the Anglo-American 

 Telegraph Company and the Newfoundland government have tele- 

 graph offices here. 



Telegraph cable. A telegraph cable was laid between port aux 

 Basques and Canso, Nova Scotia, in 1905. 

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