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mile. Long stretches of the bank are bare, but there are two exten- 

 sive clumps of spruce trees as well as some small patches of scrub. 

 Toward the eastern end of Flat island the deep water closes the 

 shore, and eastward of Harbor point the 5-fathom line is only 60 

 yards from the beach. 



Light [Lat. 48 27' 27" N., Long. 58 29' 10" W.]. A circular iron 

 lighthouse, 35 feet high, and painted with three red and two white 

 horizontal bands, stands, on a concrete base, at 100 yards within Har- 

 bor point, and exhibits, at 35 feet above high water, a fixed white 

 light, which should be seen from a distance of 7 miles in clear 

 weather. 



St. George harbor is situated at the head of St. George bay; its 

 entrance, between Harbor point on the south and Indian head on 

 the north, is 3 miles across, and its extent to the entrance of St. 

 George river is about 3 miles. 



Sandy point settlement stands on the wider part of Flat island, 

 near its eastern end, and it has a population of about 400 people, 

 who are chiefly employed in the fishing industry. 



Communication. There is communication with Halifax by 

 steamer monthly during summer. St. George station of the New- 

 foundland railway is situated f mile southward of Turf point. The 

 mail trains, which run three times a week between St. Johns and 

 port aux Basques, stop at St. George. There is telegraphic communi- 

 cation. 



There is hotel accommodation of a kind at St. George for about 

 12 people. 



Indian river, or Little Barachpis brook, lies 1 miles east-north- 

 eastward from Turf point. Indian pond, the space within the en- 

 trance, is of considerable size, but it quickly narrows between high 

 wooded banks. A government ferry crosses at the mouth. 



St. George river entrance, which is known as the Gut, lies 2^ 

 miles northward from Indian river entrance. The intervening shore 

 is composed of low sand cliffs. During fine weather boats enter the 

 river at low water, but the tidal stream runs strongly through, and 

 there is generally more or less swell setting on the shore; during 

 strong westerly winds it should not be attempted. There is a large 

 lumber mill and some houses on the southern side of the entrance. 

 The Newfoundland railway crosses the mouth of this river by an 

 iron bridge, and the road to Stephenville is continued by means of 

 a ferry across the river. 



Indian head [Lat. 48 30' 00" N., Long. 58 31' 00" W.] is a re- 

 markably cliffy headland on the northern side of St. George harbor. 

 The summit of the cliff is 180 feet high, but it gradually rises to a 

 conspicuous conical wooded peak, 631 feet high, at 1| miles to the 

 northeastward, from which wooded hills extend northeastward to a 

 deep valley which separates them from the higher ranges inland. 



Steplienville comprises the district extending northwestward about 

 5 miles from Indian head. There are numerous houses about the 

 shores of the lagoon, northwestward of Indian head, and on the low 

 slopes northwestward of it, as well as on the beach ; and there is also 

 a Roman Catholic church standing near the beach. A road passes 

 round the lagoon to the ferry at St. George river, and also westward 

 to Isthmus bay. At a short distance eastward of the church, Blanche 

 river, a small stream, flows through the stony beach into the sea ; the 



