660 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA. 



The coast between Channel head and Enragee point, 4| miles to the 

 west-northwestward, has a group of islands and rocks and some foul 

 ground lying off it. The islands should not be approached by large 

 vessels within the distance of 1 mile. 



Grand bay is available for vessels drawing less than 9 feet of water, 

 and affords perfectly sheltered anchorage in 2 to 4 fathoms of water ; 

 it is entered through a narrow channel northeastward of the preceding 

 anchorage by keeping the eastern shore aboard. 



Enragee 'point is a low point surrounded by rocks. The coast from 

 it to cape Ray, which is distant about 4 miles in a northwesterly direc- 

 tion, consists of low sand hills facing salt water lagoons, and should 

 not be approached by large vessels within the distance of 1 mile. 



Cape Ray [Lat. 47 36' 55" N., Long. 59 18' 00" W.J, the south- 

 western extremity of Newfoundland, is about 50 to 160 feet high, but 

 at about 3 miles north-northeastward of it Table mountain rises 

 abruptly to the height of 1,700 feet. Cook stone, 1,570 feet high, is a 

 small peak at the southwestern end of the mountain and at about 

 5^ mile farther southwestward is Sugarloaf hill, conspicuous, conical, 

 and 800 feet high. Two smaller conical hills lie between Sugarloaf 

 hill and the sea. 



Light [Lat. 47 37' 00" N., Long. 59 18' 00" W.]. A white 

 octagonal tower with a red lantern, 75 feet high at 217 yards within 

 the western extreme of cape Ray, exhibits at 127 feet above high 

 water a flashing white light, which shows one group of three flashes 

 every fifteen seconds, and should be seen from a distance of 17 miles 

 in clear weather. 



A white dwelling and outbuildings, with red roofs, are situated 

 near the lighthouse. 



Fog signal. A diaphone horn, worked by compressed air, at a 

 fog signal house situated on the shore at cape Ray, gives one blast 

 of five seconds' duration every minute during thick weather, fog, 

 and snowstorms. The fog signal house is a white building with a 

 red roof and a high brick chimney. 



Wireless telegraph station. A wireless telegraph station has been 

 established at Cape Ray lighthouse by the government of Canada and 

 it is operated for the Marine and Fisheries Department of the 

 Dominion by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, Limited. 



St. Paul island [Lat. 47 12' 30" N., Long. 60 09' 00" W.], in 

 Cabot strait, the main entrance to the gulf of St. Lawrence, between 

 the southwestern extremity of Newfoundland and the northern ex- 

 tremity of Cape Breton island, is nearly 3 miles long and 1 mile broad. 

 It is composed of primary rocks, principally mica slate, dipping at an 

 angle of about 45 to the southward. Its northern point is a small 

 detached rock (although it appears connected from the sea), sepa- 

 rated by a very narrow channel from a peninsula, about 400 feet high, 

 which, together with the isthmus joining it to the body of the island, 

 is so precipitous as to be nearly inaccessible. The remaining greater 

 part of the island is also precipitous toward the sea, and it rises in 

 two parallel ranges of hills, that on the eastern coast being the higher, 

 and attaining an elevation of 500 feet. 



A valley runs between these hills, and in it are two ponds, at some 

 250 feet above the sea. These supply a stream, which is about 6 feet 

 wide and flows into the sea in the southern part of Trinity cove. Its 



