GEOGRAPHICAL DATA. '669 



Guernsey (or Weebald island) [Lat, 49 11' 15" K, Long. 58 

 21' 30" W.J, the southwestern island of the group lying in the 

 entrance to the Bay of Islands, situated 1 T ^ miles northward of 

 South head, is a little over a mile long, in a north-northwesterly and 

 south-southeasterly direction, 1,400 yards wide, and 1,053 feet high ; 

 it is almost barren, but there are a few trees near its southern end, 

 where is the best landing place in ordinary weather. 



Tweed island (or French Island), separated from Guernsey island, 

 lying to the northeastward, by a passage f mile wide, is 1 T V miles 

 long east and west, $ mile in greatest width, with a bare summit, 702 

 feet high, falling in black perpendicular cliffs on the northwestern 

 and northeastern coasts. 



Green island, or Woody island, northeastward 700 yards from 

 Hen island, is 1,100 yards long, in an easterly and westerly direction, 

 900 yards in greatest width, and it rises to a round hill 415 feet high, 

 with the summit covered with moss; there is a small cove on the 

 southwestern side of this island, in which are several rocks. 



Saddle island (formerly Shag rocks), northward mile from 

 Green island, is a narrow island, rather more than 600 yards long, 

 in a north-northeasterly and south-southwesterly direction, and di- 

 vided into two rocky parts, connected by a narrow ridge; the south- 

 ern part, 170 feet high, is round and covered with grass and a few 

 stunted trees, while the northern is 163 feet high, bare and rugged, 

 with a square pillar 150 feet high on its northern side, which is 

 prominent on easterly or westerly bearings. 



Gregory island, north-northeastward, nearly 2 miles from Saddle 

 island, is about 600 yards long in a curve and 245 feet high. 



Brandies rocks, a shoal 250 yards in diameter, the middle of which 

 bears 29, distant 1,400 yards from the eastern end of Gregory island, 

 show by breakers with a slight swell; the eastern rock uncovers 2 

 feet at low water. The northern end of Saddle island, open west- 

 ward of Gregory island, bearing 203, leads westward; and Little 

 Shag rock in line with the middle of Lark harbor entrance, bearing 

 194, leads eastward of the rocks. 



Pearl island (or Big island), eastward 1 mile from Tweed island, 

 is If miles long, in an easterly and westerly direction, with a greatest 

 breadth of 1J miles, and it is 845 feet high. Four curious pillars (the 

 highest of which is 597 feet high) stand on its eastern side, on the 

 northern part of a deep valley which separates them from the hill 

 in the southeastern part of the island. Shivery point, the northern 

 end of the island, has a rock with 5 feet water over it, bearing 83, 

 distant 200 yards from it. 



Shag rocks consist of two groups; the northern group is a round 

 islet 20 feet high, bearing 125, distant mile from the southeastern 

 end of Pearl island, with low rocks extending westward 100 yards, 

 and southeastward 300 yards from it. The southern group is a flat, 

 bare islet, 19 feet high, bearing 156, distant 800 yards from the 

 highest of the northern group, with low reefs^ extending northwest- 

 ward 200 yards, and eastward 700 yards from it. 



The shore of the Bay of Islands from South head trends about 

 southeastward for f mile to White point, and thence southward for 

 1A miles to the entrance of Lark harbor. 



Lark harlor [Lat. 49 06' 05" N., Long. 58 22' 02" W.] lies 

 between the peninsula of which Lark mountain is the summit and a 



