GEOGRAPHICAL DATA. 663 



blast, 3| seconds; silent interval, 78 seconds, during thick and foggy 

 weather. 



St. George lay [Lat. 48 16' 00" N., Long. 59 00' 00" W.]. The 

 land from cape Anguille trends northeastward for a distance of about 

 50 miles, and then curving to the westward for about 30 miles forms 

 an extensive bay, the entrance to which, between capes Anguille and 

 St. George, is 34 miles across. This bay is 2 with the exception of 

 St. George harbor, situated at its head ; * entirely without sheltered 

 anchorage, and, as westerly winds prevail, there is generally a swell 

 rolling in, which, in gales, quickly increases to a very heavy sea. 



Landing in the bay anywhere outside St. George harbor, with the 

 exception of two small rocky bights on the northern side is im- 

 practicable during heavy westerly weather. This is especially the 

 case on the southern shore, owing to the large number of ice- 

 deposited stones and bowlders fronting the beaches. Numerous 

 cottages and a few villages stand on the shores of the bay. The set- 

 tlers are, with few exceptions, fishermen, and large quantities of cod 

 and herring, as well as some salmon arid lobsters, are annually caught ; 

 farming, in a primitive fashion, is carried on, but the crops are mostly 

 confined to hay arid to the small quantity of oats and potatoes required 

 for themselves and their cattle, sheep, and horses. 



The coast from cape Anguille to Lewis point, northeastward, dis- 

 tant about 16 miles, is composed of cliffs, reaching, in places, a height 

 of 270 feet, and broken here and there by gullies extending from Cape 

 Anguille mountains, which are immediately inland. It is steep-to 

 and free from offlying shoals, the 10-fathom contour line, over its 

 whole extent, being about 800 yards from the shore. The tops of the 

 cliffs and the slopes of the mountains behind are densely wooded, and 

 waterfalls mark the mouths of several streams, especially during 

 spring. 



At the entrance to some of the gullies there are small clusters of 

 rude huts in which the fishermen live during summer. A narrow 

 bush trail, originally cut for the benefit of persons shipwrecked on 

 this inhospitable coast, runs parallel with the cliffs a short distance 

 inland and connects cape Anguille with Ship cove. 



Crabb brook is nearly 400 yards wide between the heads forming 

 its mouth, but a stony spit projects 200 yards from the foot of the 

 hill on the western side. Banks of stones, that dry at low water, 

 extend nearly across the entrance, leaving a narrow, crooked channel, 

 in which there is only 1 foot at low water. 



The village is situated on both sides of the stream, just inside the 

 entrance, but the larger number of houses is on the western side. 

 The population is about 200, all of whom are engaged in fishing and 

 farming. 



There is a church, school, and post-office. Crabbs station of the 

 Newfoundland railway is on the left bank of the river 2| miles from 

 the mouth. There is a rough road to the southern side of St. George 

 harbor. 



Flat island [Lat. 48 26' 00" N., Long. 58 34' 00" W.] is a low 

 bank of stones and shingle extending in a curve from Youngs cove 

 to Harbor point, a distance of 6 miles in an east-northeasterly direc- 

 tion and forming with the shore of the mainland the shallow basin 

 known as Flat bay. The width of this bank of stones is only about 50 

 yards in places, while toward the eastern end it is rather more than 



