678 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA. 



Lower head (Stanford point] is a rocky projection at the termi- 

 nation of the sandy shore extending northeastward from Cow head. 

 It is 35 feet high, and from it a low cliffy coast with a small sandy 

 bight extends north-northeastward 800 yards. Off Lower head, and 

 also off this cliffy coast, shoal water extends nearly mile, and is 

 clearly marked by breaks, when there is any swell. 



Sandy lay [Lat. 50 02' 15" N., Long. 57 42' 15" W.], 5 miles 

 from Lower head, is a shallow bend in the coast; it is generally foul 

 and rocky, and affords only temporary anchorage. The entrance to 

 Parsons pond is near its southeastern end. 



Parsons pond extends inland about 7 miles from Sandy bay, with 

 an average breadth inside the narrows near the entrance of about 1 

 mile. The entrance is obstructed by a bar of coarse shingle, with a 

 depth of 4 feet over it, and immediately inside the entrance, on the 

 southern bank, is the village, with some buildings on the sandy spit 

 opposite. Here the depth in the channel is about 1 fathom, but 

 farther in it quickly shoals again to 3 feet, through a stony flat. 



Borings for oil have been made on the southern shore of Parsons 

 pond at 5 miles from the entrance. 



The coast from Sandy bay trends about north-northeastward, and 

 is a low, stony beach, with a clay bank behind it, for f mile. Thence 

 a rough beach of stones and bowlders, fronted in places by rocky 

 ledges, extends for about 4 miles to the Arches, a cluster of detached 

 masses of sandstone honej^combed by the sea, and standing on a sandy 

 beach a little above low water. 



At 2 miles north-northeastward of the Arches the direction of the 

 coast bends to the northeastward, and Portland hill, rather more than 

 J mile inland, is 530 feet high, thickly wooded, and, from the south- 

 ward, wedge-shaped. 



Westward of Portland hill, flat ledges appear outside the stony 

 beach and continue for a distance of 2 miles to a place where there 

 are some cottages and a canning factory. 



Portland cove [Lat. 50 10' 30" N., Long. 57 36' 15" W.] lies be- 

 tween the canning factory and Eastern head ; the w r ater in it off the 

 creek is shallow for about 500 yards, but outside this there is fairly 

 good anchorage, during easterly winds, in about 4 fathoms water, 

 sand and mud bottom, but it appears to be bad holding ground. 



Eastern head, the northern point of Portland cove, is 47 feet high, 

 rocky, and bare on the top. 



The coast trends north-northeastward and is rocky for IfV miles 

 from the head ; here there is a white stony beach, in front of a high 

 green bank; it then turns northward to Cliffy point, which is rocky, 

 with a bank 60 feet high inside of it. 



The coast from Cliffy point continues to trend north-northeast- 

 ward and is stony and backed by a more or less wooded bank for 2 

 miles, to a low point fronted by some rocks, two of which are pin- 

 nacles 25 feet high. There are several houses on the point, and the 

 rocks in front, extending a little northward, form Daniels cove, which 

 is sheltered from the sputhwestward. 



The coast from Daniels cove trends north-northeastward, and, for 

 a distance of 3 miles, is a stony beach, with a high clay bank, covered 

 on the top with scrub, and broken here and there by small streams. 



Belvans cove [Lat. 50 20' 15" N., Long. 57 31 > 50" W.], 6 miles 

 from Daniels cove, is a small bight, with rocky ledges fronting it, 



